In California, the American Civil Liberties Union is accusing Los Angeles prison guards of severely beating a defenseless prisoner. ACLU jail monitor Esther Lim says she witnessed two deputies at the Twin Towers jail kicking, punching and tasering prisoner James Parker as he lay unconscious for at least two minutes. Lim says the deputies repeated the commands, “stop resisting” and “stop fighting,” as though they were reading from a script. Parker has been charged with felony counts of battery and resisting an officer in connection with the incident.