Michael's father, Anthony DeHerrera, said he could hear the altercation for seven minutes through the phone's open line.
"The last thing I heard is, 'We have to get rid of the phone, they're recording us.' And then the phone went dead," he said.
The bright spot in all this is that the kid was the son of a LEO. Nice to see one of their own get the tar beat out of them so they can see how it feels on the other side of the beating.
I find it extremely hypocritical that one LEO sued another for brutality when he is one of them! I am sure he felt conflicted, on the one hand he is supposed to stand up for his fellow officer, but on the other hand, his son got a little road rash.
It takes a lot of balls to sue one of your own and I am sure that if the guy who issued the beating has any family, the favor will be returned in spades by the Pueblo Sheriff’s Department. It would not surprise me to read about the murder/suicide of this cop and his family.