Getty Images/iStockphotoAn alleged 2010 beating by McMinn County, Tenn., sheriff’s deputies of a then-70-year-old man during a traffic stop is scheduled for trial in federal court next week after a hearing here Wednesday.
In the $2 million lawsuit, French Jarrett alleges that he was stopped by deputies Dale Murray and Jonathan Scott on Aug. 16, 2010, and tried to get out of his vehicle.
Jarrett claims that Murray told him to stay in the vehicle and Scott asked for his driver’s license.
Murray “without provocation struck [Jarrett] in the head,” according to court documents.
Jarrett then says in the civil complaint that the pair dragged him from his vehicle, sprayed him with a chemical weapon, struck him repeatedly with mechanical batons and stomped his legs, breaking his left femur.