A federal grand jury has indicted an officer at the Miami-Dade juvenile lockup, charging him with overseeing a "bounty system" that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old detainee.
The indictment, which was announced by federal prosecutors Monday morning, charges officer Antwan Johnson with one count of conspiracy and one count of violating the civil rights of 17-year-old Elord Revolte, who died on Aug. 31, 2015, after more than a dozen other detainees ambushed him. The savage beating occurred in a day room of the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, a lockup with a long, sad history of officer misconduct.
The eight-page indictment alleges that Johnson, and "other persons known and unknown to the grand jury," conspired to "injure,...threaten and intimidate" Elord by provoking other youths in the lockup to assault him. And the indictment says Johnson was not the only officer who was turning juveniles into violent goons.
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