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One of the former Memphis police officers who has been accused of murdering Tyre Nichols allegedly beat up a prison inmate when he worked as a correction officer.
Demetrius Haley, 30, was accused in a 2016 lawsuit brought by Cordarlrius Sledge, 34, of partaking in a violent beating inside Shelby County Division of Corrections.
'That could have been me,' Sledge told one outlet. 'I could be dead. As it is, my body still hurts from the beating. It's gonna hurt for life.'
Haley is one of five former Memphis cops charged in the brutal killing of Nichols, 29, who was stopped by officers on January 7 as he was driving home before he was wrestled out of his car, Tasered, and ran away.
The officers then caught up with him several minutes later and and viciously beat him, holding his wrists as they pummeled him and kicked him.
Before his January 2023 arrest in the death of Tyre Nichols, Demetrius Haley, 30, was accused of a brutal assault on a prison inmate in 2015
Cordarlrius Sledge, 34, accused Haley of partaking in a violent beating inside the Shelby County Division of Corrections in May 2015
Haley is one of five former Memphis police officers who have been charged in the brutal killing of Nichols, 29, who was stopped by officers on January 7 as he was driving home
Video of the incident was released Friday by the Memphis Police Department and sparked nationwide outrage and protests over the beating.
Nichols was battered so brutally he died on January 10 in the hospital from injuries sustained.
In an interview with the New York Post, Sledge spoke out on the lawsuit he filed against the institution and the officers.
The former inmate alleged Haley was one of the most vicious attackers in the group. The attack in question took place inside the facility on May 16, 2015.
Sledge, who was serving a three-year sentence for aggravated assault, filed the lawsuit on his own, alleging the group of corrections officers beat him during a search for a cellphone.
'When they came in to do one of their little random pop-in search, they called me and two other guys to the shower area to be strip-searched,' Sledge told NBC News.
'I had some contraband on me and I was trying to flush it down the toilet but they didn't follow protocol. Haley was the most vicious,' Sledge said.
Haley joined the Memphis Police Department in August 2020
These are the five former police officers who were recently arrested and charged in the death of Tyre Nichols
The man accused another officer of slamming his face into a sink.
'That's when they started punching on me,' he said. 'They picked me up and slammed my head into the sink, and I blacked out.'
The former inmate said when he woke up after blacking out during the attack, he woke up in his bed with blood pouring out of his ear.
'There was so much blood on my pillow. It damaged my right ear for life,' he said.
Sledge told the Post he received an apology from the
