Metro may pay $50,000 to man hurt by jail ‘distract grenade’ at Clark County Detention Center
Metro’s Fiscal Affairs Committee is set to decide Monday whether to pay $50,000 to a man who was hurt by jail staff while incarcerated at Clark County Detention Center.
The inmate, Rick Kendrick, was injured during a “shake-down due to the threat of inmate violence,” in December, according to a document in the committees agenda.
Officers were trying to throw a “distract grenade” into an unoccupied jail cell, according to the document. But the grenade bounced off a concrete beam and hit Kendrick, who was injured by a piece of the explosive.
Police did not provide other details about the incident when asked Friday.
The payment, if approved, would come out of the Detention Services Division Self-Insurance Fund.
The Fiscal Affairs Committee’s public meeting is set for 8:30 a.m. Monday at Las Vegas police headquarters, 400 S. Martin Luther King Blvd.
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