San Francisco's Black and Tan Fight Club

[AthenaAwakened]

Four San Francisco sheriff’s deputies were placed on administrative leave and are currently under investigation after a public defender accused them of forcing Black and Latino inmates into “gladiator-style” fight clubs, CNN reports.
On Thursday, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate after the city’s public defender, Jeff Adachi, accused White deputies of coercing the inmates — all men of color — to fight each other or risk facing torture. The deputies reportedly placed bets on the brutal matches.
In one incident, an inmate identified as Ricardo Palikiko Garcia was forced to fight an inmate twice his size.

http://newsone.com/3103196/san-francisco-jail-forcing-black-latino-inmates-to-fight/

Adachi interviewed the victims, who were being held at the Hall of Justice, including inmate Garcia.

"Deputy's betting against me and forcing me to fight and if I don't fight, then he's basically telling me that he was going to beat me up, cuff me, Tase me all at once," Garcia said in an audio recording.

The deputies spurred Garcia's 350-pound adversary on, Adachi told CNN affiliate KGO.

"Chanting like, 'Get him. Get him. Hit him. (Expletive) him up or kick him in the (expletive). Stuff like that," Garcia said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/us/san-francisco-jail-forced-fights/

 

[dismal]

Many at the jail may have known what was going on but kept their mouths shut, authorities said

First rule.

 

[fromderinside]

First rule ...

... for a successful scam when fear of torture is involved