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Kenton jail officer suspended after slamming inmate to floor, report says Terry DeMio
Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
A Kenton County jail corrections officer was suspended for violating use-offorce policies after slamming an inmate to the floor, resulting in a deep gash in the inmate’s head. Corrections Officer Daniel Nussbaum was suspended for 30 days on Nov. 12 and is expected to return to work Dec. 22, according to a disciplinary report in his personnel file. The Enquirer obtained the report after making a Kentucky Open Records Act request. The report says Nussbaum violated two use-of-force policies and the code of conduct on Nov. 2 in an incident that started with inmate Steven Jordan’s release from the jail. Video from the incident shows Nussbaum grabbing Jordan and slamming him to the floor. Jordan, who is then handcuffed, yells out and blood pools from his head onto the floor. Jordan went to the hospital after he was released. He was given multiple stitches. An investigation after the incident showed that Nussbaum failed to call for backup once the situation got physical and that he used inappropriate force. His incident report also included inaccuracies, the investigation concluded. Nussbaum said Jordan smacked his hand away, but the investigation showed that’s not true. Nussbaum also incorrectly said Jordan “assumed an ag-
Video from the incident shows Nussbaum grabbing Jordan and slamming him to the floor. Jordan, who is then handcuffed, yells out and blood pools from his head onto the floor. gressive stance,” “clenched his right fist” and “was defensively resistant and tried to pull away.” Nussbaum, who started working for the jail in 2008 and earns just under $40,000 a year, has been in trouble before. Over the years, he’s been reprimanded for tardiness; for arguing with a police officer at the Covington FOP Lodge; and for interfering with a Dayton, Kentucky, police investigation that involved his brother. In 2013, Nussbaum was suspended without pay for 10 days after a fist fight with another deputy. In 2017, he was arrested in Florence for driving under the influence of alcohol. An evaluation from that same year notes he was “quick to go defensive and argue with others.” In June of this year, Nussbaum was given a written warning after he failed to turn on his body camera to record an incident with an inmate.
A corrections officer from Kenton County jail shot this picture of Steven Jordan after his head was slammed to the ground on Nov. 2. PROVIDED
Fort Mitchell to be hub for opioid strike force in Appalachia Sarah Brookbank Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker visits Nashville on Nov. 29. He discussed the efforts to combat the opioid crisis. LARRY MCCORMACK / THE TENNESSEAN
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Fort Mitchell is set to become a hub for a new task force to combat the opioid epidemic, acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced Thursday. The Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force was announced by federal officials and Whitaker said Fort Mitchell will become the northern hub. Nashville will be the southern hub, he said in Tennessee. Whitaker was in Downtown Cincinnati on Friday and talked about the newly announced strike force, which is composed of 12 opioid fraud prosecutors across nine Appalachian districts.
“Appalachia has been especially hard hit by addiction and by opioid fraud.” Matthew Whitaker U.S. Attorney General
On Thursday, he said the Attorney General’s office wants to make it harder to divert pills for abuse and will be “going after the fraudsters who exploit people suffering from addiction.” He repeated much of what he said on Thursday in Cincinnati. “Appalachia has been especially hard hit by addiction and by opioid fraud.
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Some of the first pill mills in America were started in Southern Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. And to this day Appalachian communities still have tragically high rates of addiction and overdose,” Whitaker said in Nashville on Thursday. Whitaker said each prosecutor will have a team of federal investigators and law enforcement agents. The format is based off a similar task force that combats health care fraud, according to Whitaker. “This new Strike Force is going to build on the successes that we have already achieved over these past two years, and I believe that it can help provide some relief to Appalachia,” Whitaker said. “This is our latest step—but it is not our last step.”
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