The man’s mother said he suffered a broken nose, fractured jaw, broken orbital sockets and loss of vision in one eye.
Shawn Sims was beaten by police on Washington Boulevard in Ogden on Saturday, April 22, 2023. Ogden police Chief Eric Young said Tuesday that the officers' actions were justified.Ogden police Chief Eric Young said Tuesday that the four officers involved in the beating of a 30-year-old man as he was lying on the ground Saturday were justified in their use of force because the man had acted like he had a gun.
A woman who identified herself as Sims’ mother shared a more detailed account of Sims’ injuries on a GoFundMe campaign she set up after the beating, saying that he suffered a “broken nose, fractured jaw, broken orbital sockets and complete loss of vision in one of his eyes.”, noting that the video “clearly shows him laying on the ground defenseless, not resisting at all.”Young said Sims had been walking in traffic near 17th Street and Washington Boulevard on Saturday around 5:40 p.m.
The officers commanded him to stop, but Sims ran from them with his hand in his waistband. As they began to approach, Sims took a “stance that led officers to believe that he was about to withdraw a weapon and fire at them,” Young said. For about 10 seconds, two of the four officers struck Sims with their fists in the head, shoulder and back “numerous times,” Young said, then used a Taser twice, once in his back and once in his side.
“Sims never complied with any of the officers’ commands,” Young said, adding that Sims was under the influence of “at least one illegal narcotic,” though Young did not state the narcotic. Later, when Sims was in a holding cell at the Weber County jail, an officer asked him why he would pretend he had a gun. Sims replied that “he’s had a lot of problems with his mind,” Young quoted him as saying, adding that Sims was “hoping [the Ogden Police Department] would’ve shot [him].”The Ogden Police Department’s after-action, use-of-force investigation into the altercation Saturday is now complete, Young said. All four officers’ use of force was found to be “justified,” he said.
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