A man says Nassau County sheriff’s deputies and Jacksonville sheriff’s officers kicked and broke his ribs and released a K-9 on him, thinking he might have been involved in the deadly shooting of Nassau County Deputy Joshua Moyers.
Nassau County deputies acknowledge a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office K-9 did attack Matthew Thompson. JSO told News4Jax it is looking into the incident.
Thompson has yet to file a complaint over the incident but says he’s going to talk to a lawyer.
Thompson says that the night that Moyers was shot, he was doing yard work at his uncle’s house when deputies mistook him for an accused killer.
“The night of the shooting, I was at my uncle’s house, helping him clean his yard up, and I went outside to check a fire, and next thing I knew, I had a dog on my arm and had about 10 cops beating me up and took me to the hospital and handcuffed me to the bed,” Thompson told News4Jax on Monday. “They released me yesterday.”