The former Pearl police officer accused of forcing a person who was being booked in jail to lick urine off the floor of a holding cell has been sentenced to one year in federal prison.
Michael Christian Green, 26, pleaded guilty to acting under color of law to deprive a person of his civil rights back in March. On Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew S. Harris handed the former officer the maximum sentence for the charge.
The unidentified victim, who was booked after a disturbance at Sam’s Club on December 23, told Green that he needed to urinate. After not being allowed to relieve himself, the man urinated in a corner of the holding cell where he was being detained.
Prosecutors wrote that Green threatened to beat him with a phone and commanded that he “lick it up.” Green will now be required to take a mental health program in anger management and will serve one year of supervised probation following his release from prison.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with assistance from the Pearl Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Goff.
