After forcing an imprisoned man to lick the floor of his jail cell, a former Mississippi police officer was sentenced to one year in federal prison on Wednesday.
Michael Christian Green was sentenced to the maximum amount of time in jail for the misdemeanor offense of acting in concert with the government to deny someone their civil rights. Green, 26, entered a guilty plea on March 14 and is due to report to prison on July 26.
In late December, Green’s employment as a patrol officer for the Pearl Police Department was terminated, just four days following the footage from the security cameras in Pearl, a suburb of Jackson, the state capital.
Green is white, and a spokesman for Pearl City said the individual he detained is Latino, despite the fact that race was not mentioned in court filings. According to a charge sheet, Green detained the man on December 23 following a disturbance at a shop.
According to the court statement, security footage from the police department revealed that after the man was placed in a holding cell, he tried to tell Green that he had to go to the bathroom by knocking on the door.
The record stated that the man moved to the back of the cell and urinated in a corner after waiting for a while.
The only way to identify the man who was arrested in the court document is by his initials, B.E. Green was seen threatening to beat B.E. with a phone on the security camera clip.
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According to the paper, Green sent the man back into the cell and urged him to “suck it up,” using his phone to record B.E. as the man licked his own pee on the ground. According to the paper, Green instructed the man to “don’t spit it out” after he had gagged many times.
In a statement, the city of Pearl stated that after learning of the “disturbing event” over Christmas weekend, officials hired a private attorney to launch an investigation. Green resigned on December 27, according to Mayor Jake Windham.
According to Windham, Green had been employed by the Pearl Police Department for almost half a year after working for other Jackson-area law enforcement organizations.
Mississippi authorities seldom prosecute law enforcement officials for acts of brutality, though they do look into a number of incidents of police shootings every year.
Pearl is located in Rankin County, where six white ex-police officers, some of whom went by the nickname “Goon Squad,” were convicted last year on federal and state charges for entering guilty pleas to charges of racially assaulting two Black males in January 2023.
