Excess Force in Arrest of Black Man Alleged
A Carson minister on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Sheriff’s Department, charging that white sheriff’s deputies used excessive force and racial epithets when they arrested a black man in a late-night altercation on March 18.
Backed by the Carson chapter of the NAACP, the Rev. Robert Wilson, who was present during the incident, appeared before the Carson City Council on Tuesday.
Clifford Alonzo Thompson, 21, of Carson, was charged Wednesday with two counts of battery on a peace officer, assault and interfering with a peace officer. Capt. Joseph James, commander of the Carson substation, said Thompson had struggled with and shouted racial epithets at a female deputy. The unnamed deputy said Thompson threw something at her as she responded to a car alarm in a Carson shopping center parking lot, he said.
James said a medical report showed no overt evidence of trauma to Thompson, though he did complain of tenderness in his right elbow and shoulder.
James said he doubted that deputies had used racial epithets, but said an internal investigation would begin after the case against Thompson ends.
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