Elkhart Police Officer Pleads Guilty After Beating Handcuffed Man
This article was produced by the South Bend Tribune, a member of the ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in 2018. Sign up for Dispatches to get st...
This article was produced by the South Bend Tribune, a member of the ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in 2018. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A police officer in Elkhart, Indiana, who was seen repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in a 2018 video obtained by the South Bend Tribune and ProPublica pleaded guilty in a federal civil rights case last week. The plea agreement calls for Cory Newland to be sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the incident, in which he and fellow officer Joshua Titus were seen on a security camera video beating Mario Guerrero Ledesma while the man was handcuffed to a chair in a detention area at the city police station.