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		</div><h6><span style="color:#210101;"><strong>Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s deputy, Timothy James, allegedly hit a restrained 17-year-old boy multiple times</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#210101;"><strong>Deputy James was assisting a sergeant on the arrest of brothers Elias Campos, 17, and Arel Campos, 18, wanted on outstanding warrants from Orlando</p>
<p>The 17-year-old Elias was sitting in the back of officer James&#8217; patrol car in handcuffs when his sergeant observed him hitting the teen, repeatedly </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#210101;">38-year-old James claims the victim spit on him before he responded with the battering</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#210101;">The three year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s office, was arrested on a charge of battery</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#210101;">He&#8217;s the seventh member of Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s office arrested this year, and the third time James has been investigated in 2017 </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#210101;">A total of 13 complaints have been lodged against officer Jams in his 3 yearsof service<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><img class=" size-full wp-image-198297 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/timothy-james2.png" alt="Timothy James2" width="222" height="578" />A Florida police officer allegedly punched a handcuffed 17-year-old several times and was arrested on a charge of battery.<br />
Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Officer Timothy James [left], was assisting an arrest of the 17-year-old and his 18-year-old brother at a gas station around 4am on Saturday.<br />
38-year-old James himself was subsequently arrested and booked in the Duval County Jail after the sergeant he was helping effect the arrest claimed he saw officer James hit the 17-year-old multiple times.<br />
His arrest was announced by Undersheriff Pat Ivey on Saturday afternoon, marking the third time the three-year member of the sheriff&#8217;s department is under investigation in 2017, alone.<br />
The brothers he was arresting, Elias, 17, and Arel Campos, 18, were wanted on outstanding warrants for burglary from Orlando.<br />
A patrol sergeant had seen the brothers at the gas station, but called in backup. James is the officer who came to help. <a class="" href="http://www.news4jax.com/news/jso-deputy-arrested-in-beating-of-handcuffed-17-year-old" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WJXT</a> reports that Elias was suspected of resisting without violence and Arel had been named in the burglary warrant.<br />
The brothers were handcuffed and were sitting in the back of James&#8217; patrol car while the sergeant was verifying the brothers&#8217; outstanding warrants in his own car, according to <a class="" href="http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/jso-officer-arrested-for-battery-on-a-suspect/532041625" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WJAX</a>.<br />
After one of the teens initially claimed James hit him, the sergeant said nothing seemed wrong.<br />
When he went back to his car a second time, the sergeant says he saw James remove Elias from the car and struggle with him, as Abel also got out of the car, according to WJAX.<br />
The sergeant then separated the three and told James to return Elias to the back of the patrol car.<br />
As reported by <a class="" href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/jso-officer-arrested-for-beating-teen-has-multiple-allegations-of-using-excessive-force-1/447729720" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">First Coast News, </a>officer James began hitting the 17-year-old from the back of the car, leaving him with clear signs of injury and even drawing blood.<br />
The incident was immediately reported and hours later James was arrested.<br />
Ivey said James claimed the teen spit at him, but the undersheriff said that is still an &#8216;inappropriate response&#8217;.<br />
James has been released on bail, but he has been suspended during the investigation.<br />
If he does return to work, he will remain on desk duty until the end of the investigation.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-198311" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/jacksonville-sheriffs-deputy-beating-scene.png" alt="Jacksonville Sheriff's deputy beating scene.png" width="640" height="440" /><strong>Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s deputy Timothy James allegedly was arresting the teen brothers at this gas station around 4am on Saturday when he was observed beating the handcuffed 17-year-old Elias Campos</strong></h6>
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<div>The history of complaints against members of the department in the past 2 years, has witnessed the nearly 50 officers resigning or retiring from the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office while under investigation, since 2015.<br />
Under the current leadership of Sheriff Mike Williams, has seen a further 32 suspensions and two officers have been demoted.<br />
James is the seventh employee from the JSO to be arrested this year. In 2016 there were 11 JSO employees arrested.<br />
This is the third time James has been under investigation this year. He has been investigated for possibly spitting on and using force on a bi-polar man &#8211; on April 26, James was accused of and assaulting and spitting on 21-year-old Daniel Nyman in Jacksonville.</div>
<div>On May 10, he hit and killed 62-year-old Blane Stuart Land, while driving to a robbery call. On the day James did not have his emergency lights on because he was not the primary officer responding to the robbery.<br />
There have also been 13 complaints against James since he joined the JSO in 2014.</div>
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Florida cop Timothy James arrested for punching handcuffed teen in the back of his patrol car after claiming the teen spat on him – third time James has been investigated in 2017
