06-24-2010, 01:58 AM
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Suspect Claims Officers Getting Pay Back in Jail
Retaliation or police*justice?
A man accused of hitting a Miami-Dade police officer over the head with a cinder block and them running him over told a judge Tuesday that he is the target of retaliation beatings at the hands of guards at the Miami-Dade jail.
Michael Robertson is charged with attempted murder on a police officer for his alleged attack on Det. Carlos Castillo, but his attorney claims his client has become a victim after he was taken to a secret room and beaten down by officers and then taken back to his cell.
"The police officers are looking for*revenge," Robertson's attorney told the judge. "I*am not here for revenge,*I am here to do justice."
Cinder Blocked Cop Talks Recovery
Cinder Blocked Cop Talks Recovery
Some would say the alleged*beat down was street justified, considering how Robertson left Castillo for dead on the side of a street.
Detective Castillo was released from the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital Thursday, where he's been since suffering multiple skull fractures, brain and spine injuries, broken ribs, and damage to several internal organs while on the job April 23.
That night, Castillo was in Liberty City when he pulled over a car carrying Robertson and 25-year-old Monica Rene Banks.
Robertson, an ex-con who was already wanted by police for firing a gun during an argument, fled on foot. Castillo placed Banks in handcuffs and called for backup.
As back up left to hunt down Robertson, the ex-con was hiding near by and got the drop on Castillo, eventually hitting him with the block over the head and running him over with his own patrol car.
The judge ordered that no employee of the Police Department can have contact with Robertson or his family.
Suspect Claims Officers Getting Pay Back in Jail
Retaliation or police*justice?
A man accused of hitting a Miami-Dade police officer over the head with a cinder block and them running him over told a judge Tuesday that he is the target of retaliation beatings at the hands of guards at the Miami-Dade jail.
Michael Robertson is charged with attempted murder on a police officer for his alleged attack on Det. Carlos Castillo, but his attorney claims his client has become a victim after he was taken to a secret room and beaten down by officers and then taken back to his cell.
"The police officers are looking for*revenge," Robertson's attorney told the judge. "I*am not here for revenge,*I am here to do justice."
Cinder Blocked Cop Talks Recovery
Cinder Blocked Cop Talks Recovery
Some would say the alleged*beat down was street justified, considering how Robertson left Castillo for dead on the side of a street.
Detective Castillo was released from the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital Thursday, where he's been since suffering multiple skull fractures, brain and spine injuries, broken ribs, and damage to several internal organs while on the job April 23.
That night, Castillo was in Liberty City when he pulled over a car carrying Robertson and 25-year-old Monica Rene Banks.
Robertson, an ex-con who was already wanted by police for firing a gun during an argument, fled on foot. Castillo placed Banks in handcuffs and called for backup.
As back up left to hunt down Robertson, the ex-con was hiding near by and got the drop on Castillo, eventually hitting him with the block over the head and running him over with his own patrol car.
The judge ordered that no employee of the Police Department can have contact with Robertson or his family.