The results of the investigation were not disclosed with the release. Sheriff\u2019s officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the findings.<\/p>\n
The custodial deputies involved were Spenser Heichlinger and Trenton Howze, according to Sheriff\u2019s Office records accompanying the video\u2019s release. Howze, in a narrative report filed after the incident, said Adger flinched as he told the deputy not to touch him and that he feared Adger would strike him.<\/p>\n
Howze described the interaction in his report: \u201cDue to his threatening behavior, I moved to secure (Adger) to a wall. I moved to pin him to the left wall of the patbox in order to safely gain control of his arms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Howze said Adger leaned forward and tucked his arms to his chest. The deputy took his left arm and Deputy Heichlinger took the right. Both deputies put Adger\u2019s arms behind his back in what Howze described as a \u201ccontrol hold.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was during the deputies\u2019 control hold that Adger began to yell out in pain, according to the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe broke my arm. Help,\u201d the man shouted, then began to yell as he was taken to the jail\u2019s intake area to be photographed.<\/p>\n
Howze wrote in his report that he struggled to get Adger\u2019s arm into a control hold, describing how he grabbed the man by his upper left arm and wrist as he tried to bring the arm up his back while Adger pushed downward. Adger stopped moving his arm downward as it neared the base of his neck, but Howze\u2019s momentum pushed the hold to a higher position, the report stated.<\/p>\n
Heichlinger, in his statement, said he and Howze \u201cunintentionally placed (Adger) in a dual-control hold,\u201d and realized it when Adger yelled out.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou broke my arm,\u201d Howze said Adger told him as the deputies escorted him to intake. Howze said he did not believe Adger.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis statement is commonly made by arrestees placed in control holds,\u201d Howze wrote. \u201cI had no other reason to believe Adger\u2019s claim was true and I maintained my escort grip.\u201d<\/p>\n
The deputy ordered the man to \u201cstop yelling,\u201d but the man continued to scream in apparent pain for several minutes as he was photographed while restrained and placed into a jail sobering cell, the video showed.<\/p>\n
Inside the cell, at least three deputies put the man onto his stomach on the ground. One grabbed an arm and held it behind his back, another raised the man\u2019s other arm above his head, while a third restrained his ankles, according to the video.<\/p>\n
The man continued to yell in pain and appeared to attempt to comply with orders to place his hands underneath his stomach on the floor.<\/p>\n
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Officers observe an unidentified man\u2019s elbow after the man was allegedly injured by law enforcement while in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail. Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re giving you very simple instructions to put your hands underneath your belly button,\u201d one deputy said, as the man continued to yell and plead that he was trying to follow the instructions. \u201cIf you stand up before the door closes, you\u2019re getting tased. You understand that?\u201d the deputy said before leaving the cell.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t move,\u201d Adger said as the deputies left the sobering cell.<\/p>\n
Another video showed the man seated minutes later in the jail\u2019s medical intake, surrounded by deputies as a jail nurse prepared to evaluate him. He groaned as deputies lifted him off a bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you talk with the nurse for us? Speak to the nurse and tell her what\u2019s your issue. What\u2019s going on, sir?\u201d one of the deputies is heard on the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you have this problem a long time ago, or is this new?\u201d the nurse asked. A deputy responded: \u201cI think they said they heard a \u2018pop\u2019 when they grabbed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man groaned again when the nurse touched his elbow.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy elbow dislocated. He broke my elbow,\u201d the man said, then, to the deputy, \u201cYou broke my elbow, Cuz.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to have him X-rayed if that\u2019s the problem,\u201d the nurse told the deputy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOK,\u201d the deputy answered, \u201cIs that your medical opinion that his elbow\u2019s broken, or is that his opinion?\u201d The nurse asked the man to raise his arm again. He groaned as he did so and the nurse called again for an X-ray.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he heard a \u2018pop,\u201d the nurse said. A female voice off-camera disagreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t hear a \u2018pop,\u2019 the woman said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know where the \u2018pop\u2019 really came from.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputies then lifted the man from the bench as a van was called to take him to a nearby hospital. Adger struggled to stand and walk, and deputies appeared skeptical.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can stand. Stand up,\u201d one deputy said. The deputies walked the man to a jail segregation unit before the video ended.<\/p>\n