From [HERE] and [HERE] A special prosecutor cleared three uncivilized white Lafayette police officers after a K-9 mauled a Black man last year. Special prosecutor Mary Hutchison said their actions "were not criminal in nature." But the former Madison County deputy prosecutor left her post in the middle of the investigation, so Judge Sean Persin last week threw out the report, saying she "no longer had authority to act as special prosecuting attorney in this case."

Now a new special prosecutor,  David Thomas, is investigating the K9 mauling from May 2020, which left Richard Bailey Jr. in a coma for six days.

Bailey was a suspect in a fight at a Lafayette home. However, when the white officers arrived no confrontation was going on and police apparently did not bother to corroborate any details from the 911 call prior to initiating a stop and seizure of Bailey. In other words, the detention and arrest of Bailey appear to have been in violation of his so-called 4th Amendment rights.

Lafayette Police Department claim Bailey resisted arrest but the video speaks for itself. The Black man's attorneys say he was targeted because of his race - all the cops were white. Despite video showing cops release a K-9 on Bailey and allowing it to maul the man by the neck for over 30 seconds, nearly killing him, none of the officers were charged.

The LPD cleared the officers in its own internal investigation. In a statement last year to News 18, the agency said Bailey was resisting arrest and his "non-compliance created a physical altercation that did not need to occur."

LPD Chief Patrick Flannelly also posted a Youtube video debriefing the body camera footage, saying it exonerates the officers.

Bailey's attorneys called the use of the dog, which mauled Bailey's neck for 30 seconds, “extraordinarily violent” and said the three white officers used excessive force because Bailey is Black, according to the Journal & Courier. They said the 46-year-old Bailey spent days in a medically-induced coma after the attack and could have died.

As the dog viciously mauls his neck the white cop has the audacity to order “put your hands behind your back.” When the Black man stops moving the white cop grabs the dog to stop him from biting. He says, “good job.”

According to police, as reported by WLFI, officers responded to a 911 call at 12:24 am about a reported fight happening at a home on Brampton Dr. When they arrived they found 46-year old Richard Lee Bailey Jr., who they came to arrest for suspected battery and intimidation. According to police he fought with and threatened to stab the three people living in the home on Brampton Dr.

Bailey’s attorneys disagree, however, and say that the 911 dispatch gets the story wrong, and that Bailey himself was the one who was attacked.

As the video shows, when police stop him, Bailey is clearly agitated but he is non-violent and sitting on his scooter that is not even running.

“I was loud and everything because I was scared a little bit,” Bailey said of his encounter with Klimek and Sikorski. “… I was trying to plea my case to the police.

“I was on my moped trying to leave. The moped wasn’t even started yet,” Bailey said.

When Saxton arrived at the scene, Bailey is heard on the video loudly asking, “What probable cause do you have, sir?”

“He’s a suspect in a battery,” Saxton said, according to his body cam. “If he’s going to act like that, he can be detained.”

Saxton said, “Hey. There’s a dog in that car. If you fight, you’re going to get dog bit.”

Officers then pry Bailey’s hands from the scooter’s handlebars and throw him to the ground.

Before Bailey could even react, police released the dog who went straight for the man’s neck.

“Here! Here! Here!” Saxton called to his dog. “Right here!”

The dog latched on and tore into Bailey’s neck for over 30 seconds — easily enough time to kill the man. Bailey tried to stop the dog from tearing apart his neck, but he was unsuccessful.

“Stop moving!” the officer yells at a man whose neck is being shredded by the K-9.

“I wasn’t fighting the dog,” Bailey insisted. “All I did was reach up and grabbed the dog’s mouth ‘cause he’s on my throat. That was the natural reaction. I’m not fighting the dog or trying to hurt the dog. The dog’s hurting me.”

That’s about all Bailey remembers. He would wake up six days later after slipping into a coma with a tube in his throat.

Bailey recorded what the doctor told him during a follow up and the description is chilling to say the least.

“The dog, when he bit you, lacerated your windpipe, … and it had hit the main artery that goes to your brain on this side (left). And that’s completely blocked off,” the doctor said on the recording.

“You had a tear in your trachea,” the doctor said. “What I did, I fixed where they put the tube in so you could breathe. Then we put this in through the injury site.

“Then the rest was just muscle and other tissue that had been torn apart, and we put that back together again.”

“They must have been trying to kill Richard Bailey that night, they must have been,” said one of his lawyers, Fatima Johnson. “If a dog bites your neck, its obvious what’s going to happen.”

“The force was just extraordinarily violent,” another of Bailey’s attorneys, Swaray Conteh, said in an exclusive interview with the Journal & Courier. “They didn’t have to do that. Two of them could have placed him in handcuffs and took him wherever they wanted to. They didn’t need the assistance of a K9.”