NEW: A Colorado sheriff’s lieutenant with multiple criminal convictions slammed an unarmed man to the ground and fired a Taser at his face for watching a traffic stop. Kenneth Espinoza is now suing several members of the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office.
Kenneth Espinoza on Tuesday sued Lt. Henry Trujillo and other members of the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office, alleging deputies acted excessively violent toward him even though he wasn’t suspected of a crime when they contacted him and he tried to comply with their orders.
The Nov. 29 incident brought to light Trujillo’s criminal history and the five civil protection orders requested against him. Trujillo has worked at the southern Colorado sheriff’s office intermittently since 2001 and is the third in command at the agency. After Noel joined the two men, Trujillo walked away and Espinoza put his truck into reverse to drive away. Both deputies started yelling at him to stop and to get out of the truck. Espinoza stopped the truck and the deputies grabbed his arm through the driver’s window, pulling it backward while simultaneously telling him to get out of the car, the lawsuit states.
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