One of five former Memphis police officers accused of fatally beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop earlier this month was accused in 2016 of participating in a prison assault that left an inmate unconscious, according to a federal civil rights complaint.
The complaint, filed in April 2016 in U.S. District Court in Tennessee, said the officer, Demetrius Haley, was one of three corrections officers who allegedly assaulted Cordarlrius Sledge while he was behind bars in Shelby County, according to the suit.
The suit, which Sledge filed without a lawyer, was dismissed in 2018 after a judge found he didn’t properly serve one of the defendants with a summons.
Judge Thomas Anderson did not address Sledge’s allegations.
According to the complaint, Sledge said on May 16, 2015, the officers conducted a search of his cell block at Shelby County Division of Corrections, which houses inmates serving misdemeanor sentences and felony prison terms of up to 12 years.
The officers…
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