Deputy loses job over jail incident

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - An altercation with a man being arrested cost a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy his job, as he also faces criminal charges.

The sheriff’s department said Friday that 28-year-old David Carrico kicked and punched a man under arrest while handcuffed, before slamming him onto the floor. The incident happened May 20. The man under arrest refused to face the correct direction and called Carrico and another deputy racist, the sheriff’s department said.

Surveillance video from May 20 indicates the man under arrest didn’t resist or fight Carrico, the sheriff’s department said.

Carrico was terminated from his position with the sheriff’s department, where he’d been employed since April 2005. He also faces charges of official misconduct, battery and false reporting.

Sheriff John Layton has contacted the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for investigations into the incident and whether any civil rights were violated.

Carrico was arrested and had been released on bond Friday evening.

He was previously disciplined in 2006 and 2008 and most recently just last year for use of force, the sheriff's office said.