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A Black inmate at a Georgia jail accused a corrections officer of choking him with a leg restraint and making a racist comment while three other officers watched, according to a lawsuit. Tremar Harris filed a federal civil lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia against three corrections officers with the Appling County Sheriff’s Office. The suit says that the officers 'had a duty to intervene' and stop the Jan.
'Subsequently, while standing above and behind the Plaintiff who was seated and secured in the restraint chair, Officer Rentz used the chain of an unused leg restraint and placed it across the Plaintiff’s throat,' the suit says. While Rentz choked Harris, the officer said 'he was gonna put you back in the cotton field with the other boys inferring that the Plaintiff was a slave,' the suit says. Rentz is white.
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