Nation IN BRIEF : WEST VIRGINIA : 2 Guards in Black’s Mock Hanging Fired
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Two white guards were fired from the county jail in Huntington after staging the mock hanging of a black inmate. Sgt. Gary Lambert and Officer Steve Rickman had been suspended with pay and charged with misdemeanor battery after the incident last month. The guards placed a hangman’s noose around inmate Kenneth Ziegler’s neck, tied the rope to a pole and handcuffed Ziegler’s hands behind his back, police said. The guards told police they were joking.
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