Cleveland Man Victorious In Police Brutality Lawsuit As Many Officers STILL Go Free For Abuse

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio talks shop with Robert Dicello, attorney for Arnold Black in a landmark civil case against an East Cleveland Police Department supervisor. In 2012, Black was wrongfully arrested and beaten before being confined to a de facto supply closet for four days without food, water, or a bathroom. Also, Mike Papantonio and legal journalist Mollye Barrows discuss the closing of Eric Garner’s case, stemming from his death by chokehold back in 2014.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

A Cleveland man was awarded $50 million from a jury verdict after he suffered tremendous brutality from police officers. This case is once again put the issue of both brutality and police shootings on the front pages. And I'm joined now by attorney Bob Dicello, the lawyer who won this recent verdict. Bob, start by telling us what happened to this man. I took a look at the story when it was developing. I followed it the first time. What a remarkable job you did up there. Tell us what happened.

Well thank you Mike, and I want to also thank our jury because they're the ones who deserve all the credit. The jury heard a story of a man driving through a city. He got pulled over. He was escorted out of his truck, made to sit on his bumper, handcuffed, and then he was questioned and he was asked where are the drugs in East Cleveland?

And when he couldn't answer that question because he had no idea the, the detective who was doing the questioning, he started to punch him in his face, punch him in his head and the beating continued until the on duty officer, uniform police officer who was present at the scene, got in between the, the detective who was in plain clothes, who initiated the stop, got in between the detective and my client, Arnold Black, and had Arnold focus on his face as he testified and then was told by the detective to get him outta here. And they brought him to the cities jail. And the cities jail was described in testimony in this case is something like a Turkish prison or a Mexican jail. No offense to anyone who is of those origins. It's just that the history of those places and of this particular place are similar. Rat infested, roach infested, a run down facility.

And in that facility there was a dark corner that was gated off with a chain link kind of door and a steel padlock system. And they opened up that area and put him in there. It was a storage area or a closet. As it, as it was testified to. Also, they decide, decided the cities people decided to have testimony that it was a, a holding cell. My client was put there for four days, no food, no water, no bathroom facilities. And in there with him, he testified, we're cleaning supplies like mops. There was a locker, storage lockers that, that were there. And it got so bad that we actually went to the bathroom in the storage locker because he had no place to go. He was given a carton of milk by one, I guess we could say kind CO who saw him there, and he remained there for four days until they shipped him into the county system after his injuries had softened and his, the swelling had gone down.

Okay. Bobby, Let me, okay, the information that I had that I followed as you were, as you were trying this case. First of all, he was stopped. He was driving a truck and there was, under the belief that he had drugs, but you pointed out something very different and that is you're telling, you tried this case so obviously know the facts. So the, so if I get it right, they randomly asking this guy, where are all the drugs in the East Cleveland as if he's going to know about it. That's the first thing I find astounding. Second of all the, the other part of this is that he had a concussion when he was put in this closet, a broom closet for four days without food, without bathroom facilities just basically abandoned and kept prisoner in that closet.

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