A Jacksonville officer was arrested for battery Tuesday afternoon after the sheriff said he struck a man who he had placed under arrest.<\/p>\n
Shane Saydek, 43, is facing a misdemeanor charge of battery, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters announced during a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Saydek had Kaashif Griffin, 43, in custody for possession of an open container in a vehicle and resisting an officer early Monday morning, Waters said.<\/p>\n Griffin “was extremely intoxicated” and Saydek was “becoming more frustrated with him,” Waters said.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Saydek struck Griffin “while he was handcuffed on jail property,” Waters said.<\/p>\n “A second officer who witnessed this conduct immediately identified Saydek’s strikes as inappropriate and reported it to his chain of command,” Waters said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n The interaction between Saydek and Griffin was captured on body-worn camera and the footage has been “vetted,” Waters said, and a portion of it was shown during the news conference.<\/p>\n Saydek was hired by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on March 27, 2023. JSO said Saydek was suspended, stripped of his police authority, and the agency said it will seek his termination.<\/p>\n This is the 6th arrest of a JSO employee by JSO this year.<\/p>\n You can watch the briefing as it aired on the Action News Jax YouTube stream below:<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville officer was arrested for battery Tuesday afternoon after the sheriff said he struck a man who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[761,116,118,117,1415,139699,139698],"class_list":["post-340035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-free-action-news-jax","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-kaashif-griffin","tag-shane-saydek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340035","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=340035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}