ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 16, 1996 TAG: 9604160095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: HUNTINGTON, W.VA.
Two white guards were fired from the county jail Monday after staging the mock hanging of a black inmate.
Sgt. Gary Lambert and Officer Steve Rickman had already been suspended with pay and charged with misdemeanor battery after the March 24 incident.
The guards placed a hangman's noose around inmate Kenneth Ziegler's neck, tied it to a pole and handcuffed Ziegler's hands behind his back, police said.
The guards told police they were joking and that their action was not racially motivated. The FBI is investigating.
- Associated Press
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