Cop Charged with Torturing Handcuffed Man with Mace and Laughing with Coworkers as They Framed Him

Officer William Skelton was secretly indicted by a grand jury in November. He resigned before his administrative hearing to avoid accountability, but his past caught up with him. Only two of 120 excessive force complaints were sent to the attorney general's office for criminal prosecution. Only one officer was shown to be terminated. We didn't find that a single officer was criminally charged during that time and that officer was unaware he'd done anything wrong. He appears to have a history of trespassing and vandalism related to a mental illness and that night, he had trespassed and made a mess inside a local Shell station. When police showed up, Thomas didn't run or resist in any way. "Come on. You're under arrest, " he told them. "I am going home," said Thomas. He appeared to be committing a crime in January 2019, and Thomas admitted to having a history of trespass and vandalism. That's when he got angry, and that's when Skelton got angry. An officer pepper-sprayed a handcuffed man with pepper spray for no reason. The officer laughed about not rolling down the window and forcing Thomas to breathe in the fumes. 

The officer shoves Thomas into the cruiser and points it at his face and brags to the camera that he "foamed the f * * k out of em!" Pepper spraying a handcuffed man who is being held for a misdemeanor and poses no threat to anyone is clearly against Memphis police policy.said he didn't feel Thomas deserved to have the windows rolled down in the police cruiser, despite his begging for help. The officer who pepper-sprayed the handcuffed man is undoubtedly under arrest. 

The other officers on the scene simply stood around and smiled as they watched this crazed officer torture a handcuffed man with pepper Spray for no. reason. He can be heard gasping and coughing and making his pleas for help as he struggles to breathe. He's heard begging for help for several minutes and no one so much as rolls down the car window for him. Thomas suffered for over five minutes before he was allowed to breathe again. The officers didn't even check on him. They were talking about making up felony charges to put him in jail.