A Miami-Dade corrections officer is facing criminal charges nearly three years after prosecutors say he beat an inmate inside a county jail.
According to records obtained exclusively by NBC6, Officer Myth Louis-Jeune, 36, was charged in January with a misdemeanor battery charge for “actually and intentionally touching or striking” inmate Spencer Butler on March 1, 2023, inside the Miami-Dade County Pre-Trial Detention Center.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office did not file charges until Jan. 30, 2026.
‘I got my a** beat’
It’s unclear at what time on March 1 Butler was struck by Officer Louis-Jeune. However, in a video obtained by NBC6, you can hear the inmate is very upset the next day around two in the morning about getting beat up.
“I got my a** beat,” Butler is heard yelling.
At one point, Butler is placed in a room surrounded by windows, and an officer is seen pointing their weapon through the glass.
In the meantime, several officers are heard coughing.
“There is no ventilation. Turn on the exhaust fan,” one officer yelled.
Butler is then surrounded by several officers and taken to a shower to “decontaminate.”
One officer is heard telling Butler he had been pepper-sprayed. It is unclear what led officers to spray the inmate.
“I didn’t have to get sprayed,” Butler yelled.
In another video, one person asked Butler to write a statement: “What transpired with you in the elevator with Officer Louis Jeune?”
Butler is heard asking how to spell “aggressive” and “excessive.”
Officer was ‘doing his job’
According to the video, the beating happened inside the elevator. However, the details on what led to the incident were not released.
Larry Handfield, an attorney representing Louis Jeune, told NBC6 his client was acting in self-defense and that he was “just doing his job.”
Photos obtained by NBC6 show the officer with bloody bruises on his knuckles.
Handfield told NBC6 that Butler is an uncooperative and violent inmate who attacked the officer.
Louis Jeune has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
Prosecutors told NBC6 the delay in filing was “at the behest of the Defendant Louis-Jeune’s previous defense attorney, who wanted to investigate so he could present any pertinent mitigation/evidence and propose the possible use of their own experts.”
On the other hand, a labor management unit employee report obtained by NBC6 shows the officer was suspended for a November 2021 use-of-force/excessive incident.
Victim in jail
Records indicate that Butler is still being held at the Pre-Trial Detention Center for several open cases.
Butler has pleaded not guilty on his pending burglary, grand theft, and battery cases. The attorney representing him on those unrelated charges did not want to comment about the officer’s arrest.