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Title: Woman Speaks Out After Allegedly Being Blinded by Pepper Spray
Post by: philw on May 02, 2012, 06:53:39 AM

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-clark-beaumont-pepper-spray,0,40793.story

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Woman Speaks Out After Allegedly Being Blinded by Pepper Spray
A Riverside County grand jury indicted officer Enoch Clark on charges of assault.


BEAUMONT, Calif. (KTLA) -- A woman who says she was blinded by a police officer using high powered pepper spray is speaking out.

A Riverside County grand jury last week indicted officer Enoch Clark on charges of assault likely to cause great bodily injury, assault with a less-lethal weapon, assault under the color of authority and use of force causing serious bodily injury.

On February 21, Clark sprayed pepper spray in the face of Monique Christina Hernandez, 32, while he tried to arrest her on suspicion of driving under the influence, the city of Beaumont said in a statement.


Hernandez say she can't see anything and that the damage is permanent.

"The damage to my eyes is so severe there's nothing they can do to make me see again," Hernandez told KTLA.

Clark allegedly fired the spray from 12 inches away using a JPX device, which shoots spray at speeds of 400 miles per hour and is supposed to be used at a minimum distance of five feet, Hernandez's lawyer Milton Grimes said in an interview.

"She did nothing to warrant him putting a gun -- a pepper-spray Taser gun -- to her forehead and pulling the trigger, causing her right eye to explode and causing severe nerve damage in her left eye to the extent that she's not been declared totally blind," Grimes said.

Hernandez say never being able to see her daughter again is the worst part.

"I'll probably imagine her to look like a 10-year old all her life."

Clark's attorney Kasey Castillo released a statement to KTLA saying her client quote: "is remorseful but innocent... and looking forward to his day in court."

Clark has been placed on administrative leave by the Beaumont Police Department.

He remains free on $50,000 bail.

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