CNN —
Five Camden County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office employees have been placed on administrative duty amid an internal and a state investigation into the September beating of Jarrett Hobbs, a 41-year-old Black man, while he was in custody, a department spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday.
The employees were placed on administrative duty on November 14 and are serving in a non-law enforcement function while the investigations are conducted, according to spokesperson Larry Bruce. When asked why the employees were placed on administrative duty more than two months after the incident, Bruce declined to comment.
The employees in question are “young employees,” of the department, Bruce told CNN, but did not provide additional information.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Hobbs’ family and attorney called for the employees involved in his beating to be fired and charged and for the Justice Department to investigate the sheriff’s office.
“We are here standing with this community, with this family, there is no way in hell that anybody should be beaten the way this man was beaten,” said civil rights attorney Harry Daniels, who represents Hobbs. “I don’t care what he did, I don’t care if he knocked the damn door down you don’t beat a person like this.”
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