‘This is how we treat seizures in Walker County’: Deputy stomped the genitals of a mentally ill inmate who later died of complications from injury

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Background: News coverage of video of Anthony Mitchell in custody (WBRC). Inset (left): Carl Carpenter (Walker County Sheriff’s Department). Inset (right): Anthony “Tony” Mitchell (Justice for Anthony Mitchell/Facebook).

An Alabama sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty to restraining a vulnerable inmate more than two years after that inmate died as a result of his treatment during his time in custody.

Carl Lofton Carpenter, 55, entered a guilty plea on Tuesday in which he admitted to mistreating Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, 33, who died of hypothermia and sepsis two weeks after he was arrested by Walker County police. Local news website Al.com reported that his death was ruled a homicide by the county coroner, who stated that the causes of his death were a result of “infected injuries obtained during incarceration and medical neglect.” In his plea, Carpenter admitted to “us[ing] his shod foot to stomp on the genitals” of Mitchell “to punish and inflict pain without a legitimate law enforcement reason to do so.”

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