Video captures confrontation between suspect and deputies in Coachella

COACHELLA (CNS) - Video footage sent to a local television station appears to show a suspect on the ground in Coachella with several sheriff's deputies punching and kneeing him after he allegedly resisted arrest.According to a Riverside County Sheriff's Department statement, deputies responded to a disturbing the peace call at a business in the 51800 block of Cesar Chavez Street about 11 a.m. Monday and encountered a suspect who "immediately became confrontational with responding deputies and soon thereafter became combative."Garrett Torro, 35, of Banning was transported to a area hospital for treatment of what were described as minor injuries before being booked at the Indio jail on suspicion of misdemeanor resisting arrest and being released on $5,000 bail, the  sheriff's depar
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