3 Broward detention deputies face aggravated battery charge in 2022 inmate booking
Three Broward Sheriff's deputies are facing charges of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm stemming from an alleged rough encounter with a woman they were booking into the jail in 2022, court records show.
Deputy Denia Walker, 37; Deputy Cleopatra Johnnie, 47; and Sgt. Zakiyyah Polk, 44, were booked into the Broward Main Jail on Thursday, jail and court records show. The charge they each face is a second-degree felony.
On Oct. 4, 2022, Walker, Johnnie and Polk were processing a 38-year-old woman at the Main Jail and took her to a search cell to change into the jail uniform, according to arrest warrants obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel through a public records request on Thursday evening.
The deputies told the woman to remove all of her clothes, including her bra, the warrants said, but then began arguing about taking off the bra. Polk shoved the woman backward, and then all three deputies allegedly 'punched and kicked' her multiple times, according to the warrants.
Walker sprayed the woman with pepper spray, and Polk shocked her with her Taser, the warrants say.
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