Officer Myth Louis-Jeune<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\nThe Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office did not file charges until Jan. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
The newly obtained video by NBC6 shows the beating happened March 1 around 8:53 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I got my a** beat’<\/p>\n
The next day, in a body camera video obtained by NBC6, you can hear the inmate, who is very upset, around 2 in the morning, about getting beaten up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I got my a** beat,”\u00a0Butler is heard yelling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At one point, Butler is placed in a room surrounded by windows, and an officer is seen pointing their weapon through the glass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the meantime, several officers are heard coughing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There is no ventilation. Turn on the exhaust fan,” one officer yelled.<\/p>\n
Butler is then surrounded by several officers and taken to a shower to “decontaminate.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
One officer is heard telling Butler he had been pepper-sprayed. It is unclear what led officers to spray the inmate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I didn\u2019t have to get sprayed,” Butler yelled.<\/p>\n
In another video, one person asked Butler to write a statement about “What transpired with you in the elevator with Officer Louis Jeune?”<\/p>\n
Butler is heard asking how to spell “aggressive” and “excessive.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officer was ‘doing his job’<\/p>\n
According to the videos, the beating happened inside the elevator. However, the details on what led to the incident were not released.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Larry Handfield, an attorney representing Louis Jeune, told NBC6 last week his client was acting in self-defense and that he was “just doing his job.”<\/p>\n
Handfield told NBC6 that Butler is an\u00a0uncooperative and violent inmate who attacked the officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Monday, Handfield told NBC6 he had not seen the elevator video.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Louis Jeune has pleaded not guilty and is pending trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prosecutors told NBC6 the delay in filing\u00a0 was “at the behest of the Defendant Louis-Jeune\u2019s previous\u00a0 defense attorney, who wanted to investigate\u00a0 so he could present any pertinent mitigation\/evidence and propose the possible use of their own experts.”<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Victim in jail\u00a0<\/p>\n
Records indicate that Butler is still being held at the Pre Trial Detention Center for several open cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Butler has pleaded not guilty to 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The officer was relieved of duty with pay, according to Miami-Dade Corrections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video obtained by NBC6 shows a\u00a0Miami-Dade corrections officer swinging countless times and striking an inmate inside a jail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,2033],"class_list":["post-194545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-only-on-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}