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Former Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force Against Detainee in Maywood Lockup in 2010

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—September 11, 2014. A former Cook County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the civil rights of a man being held in the county’s detention lockup facility in Maywood in 2010. The defendant, RAFAEL MUNOZ, pleaded guilty at his arraignment after he was charged last week with using unreasonable force.

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Munoz, 39, of Chicago, admitted that he grabbed and forcibly pulled the chain that connected a pretrial detainee’s ankle shackles to each other,…

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