Public Complaint No. 1697396710 - 332687090

Justin Cardinale

Amador County Sheriff's Department

700 Court St

Jackson, California 95642

+1 209-223-6500

https://www.amadors…

Date of Offense

September 26, 2023

Complaint

Misconduct

Use of Force

Chokehold

Supporting Document(s)

Discovery 34 pages.pdf

Statement

Iam a disabled citizen of Amador County I live at the above address on 26 September 2019 my home was raided by Amador county sheriff’s department swat team due to my family's medical Marijuana garden witch was fully in compliance with state medical Marijuana laws and all three of us had valid medical recommendations for many years from our doctors and at 5:45 am on the 26th we were ordered out of our home by a rubber tire tank and two drones and several heavily armed swat team officers with large machine gun assault rifles dressed in military combat uniforms all yelling and screaming at us when exiting our home due to there demand they threw us all on the gravel in our driveway severely beat Me and my 68 year old mother up giving us permanent damage concussions and broke my mother's foot and brused her entire body Justin cardinale beat the holy he'll out of me when I was only telling him I'm disabled caused permanent damage to my right shoulder choked me out with a neck hold I do have reports of him describing what he did to me they were all hung over and smelled strongly of alcohol see last two pages of discovery *

Location

17005 Fiddletown Rd, Fiddletown, CA 95629, USA

38.5014127, -120.7099589

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