ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta-area sheriff is accused of violating the civil rights of several people in his agency's custody by ordering that they be unnecessarily strapped into a restraint chair and left there for hours.
The indictment against Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill was filed April 19 and was unsealed by a federal judge Monday.
It says Hill repeatedly ordered that people in his agency's custody be strapped into a restraint chair for hours in violation of their civil rights.
Hill released a statement calling the prosecution "a political motivated federal legal case."
