The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office reported on Monday, June 30 that early last month on Wednesday, June 4, Detention Services Officer Charles Leon Parker, 40, “initiated an unjustified use of force incident with an inmate.”
According to a statement from the Office, Jose Freddy Flores-Martinez, 23, (pictured above on the right) was being held in the Guilford County jail in downtown Greensboro. Flores-Martinez is classified as “an administratively segregated inmate who requires a two-officer policy when escorted in the housing unit.”
According to the Office, while returning to his cell, the inmate attempted to stab a guard assigned to escort him under the two-officer policy, using a homemade knife commonly known in the jail population as a “shank.”
After the unsuccessful attempt and the incident was resolved, Parker allegedly assaulted Flores-Martinez in his cell after being notified of the incident.
After the attack by the detention officer, Flores-Martinez was treated by WellPath medical staff at the jail’s medical area.
According to one source in law enforcement, in an account that has not been verified by the Sheriff’s Office or independantly by the Rhino Times, the officer who allegedly beat the inmate turned off his body camera before doing so, knocked a tooth out of the inmate, and broke his own hand by punching so hard.
Parker was suspended on Friday, June 13, pending internal and criminal investigations that are being conducted by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office’s Professional Standards Division as well as by the Major Crimes Investigative Unit.
Parker resigned while the investigations were underway.
The Sheriff’s Office released the following statement regarding the incident: “After a thorough criminal investigation and with assistance from the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office, Parker was charged with Misdemeanor Assault Inflicting Serious Injury. He turned himself in on Friday, June 27, 2025, and received a written promise to appear. Flores-Martinez was charged with Misdemeanor Assault with a Deadly Weapon. He is also being held for Felony Attempted First Degree Murder.”
The Sheriff’s Office added that, since this is an ongoing investigation, no further information is available at this time.
Three cheers for rough justice. Give the guard a medal.
Sure hope Trumps deports all this Third World trash.
That include the white criminals? Oh right…. you dont beleive brown people are actually citizens. Just like you are ok with revoking legal immigration statuses of refugees and asylum seekers from countries “you dont like”.
And you seem ok with ‘rough’ justice if you dont like the color of the skin of the inmate it seems.
I personally beleive officers of the law should actually follow the law. But we all know that conservstives are ok beating up cops if you are white and doing at the urging of your orange fat leader.
Got it.
But you be you.
Chris and his Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Chris another subject the House just passed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Another reason for your Trump derangement syndrome. Have a wonderful day wanker.
Gosh Chris the inmate seems to be a fine upstanding citizen, I mean really he’s only been charged with Felony
Attempted First Degree Murder, then he tries to stab a detention officer.
Maybe you could go his bond and let him come stay with you
So, you are suggesting it is ok for a prison guards to determine punishment for a prisoner’s actions? Wow, conservatives have really let go of the idea of due process.
So much for the party of justice. Guess it is now the party of vigilante justice. \
Sad
Chris you obviously don’t know anything or anyone who works as a detention officer. My brother has done this job for over 25 years
in different departments across the state. I’ve seen his injuries and heard his stories and I’ll say this He’s a better man than myself at this job. I would have done more than a tooth out if he had attempted to stab me. Take him home with you.
So what. Everyone knows being a prison guard is a rough job. Doesn’t give him a right to enter a prisoners cell after an incident was resolved and beat him as some sort of vigilante justice. The only justified beating was the self defense to protect the officer that was attacked at the time of the attack.
He doesn’t like the job, get a new one. Not complicated.
But answer the question, why is it OK for the president to pardon the men who attacked the Capitol police but this guy deserves vigilante beat down because he attacks a prison guard. Justify that hypocrisy. Bet you can’t.
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I just applauded the BLACK jail guard, and said he deserves a medal.
Your unhinged diatribe shows that you have a hysterical imagination, and that you will grasp at straws to smear conservatives.
YOU are the guy with prejudice in your heart, buddy.
And I was just making the comparison that conservatives seem to be ok when the PERPITRATOR is white as when the rioters beat up Capitol police on Jan 6th. Typical hypocrisy.
Not shocked you missed the point entirely as you often struggle to keep up with the exchanges.
Best wishes.
No, YOU have missed the mark – by accusing me of racial prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia
You never noticed that the guy I championed was a black man.
You just jumped to conclusions – without evidence – because of your anti-conservative bigotry.
Don’t try to slither out of your slander against me by trying to paint “conservatives” with a tar brush. You accused ME of being heinous.
You owe me an apology, buddy.
Love how you double down on your inability to comprehend my point. Typing slower this time for you…..The racialhypocricy I reference is in regard to the perpetrators. On this case you support vigilante justice for a black man attacking an officer but conservstives like you praise the pardoning of white people who attacked police officers on Jan 6th.
Go ahead then and justify the hypocrisy of it being ok for the president to pardon the men who attacked the capitol police but this guy’s deserves a vigilante beat down for attacking an officer?
But you be you
How dare you.
Now you’re calling me stupid – on top of your initial lies about me. YOU are the one who’s doubling down, not me. That’s because you can never just admit when you’re wrong, when you have pigeonholed “conservatives”, and simply apologize like a normal person. You’re not big enough, are you?
Go eff yourself. You’re an asshole.
CHRIS : “You don’t believe brown people are actually citizens”.
CHRIS: ” You are ok with revoking legal immigration statuses of refugees… from countries you ‘don’t like'”.
CHRIS: ” You seem ok with ‘rough justice’ if you don’t like the color of the skin of the inmate”. [ I was praising a black jail guard ]
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Lies. All lies.
Nowhere did I say anything like these things.
This guy is a nasty, bitter individual whose MO is to personally attack others with lies and character assassinations that are completely baseless. So attributes false statements to others, as he tries to make out people as racists, in order to confirm his own prejudices, and feel superior.
What a jerk.
What a jerk.
Oh so you are against Trump’s pardon of Jan 6th rioters? You are against Trumps treatment of immigrants and refugese of color in the US?
Go ahead and prove me wrong and speak out against Trump on those issues. Bet you won’t. Which will prove me right. Lmao
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Jan 6th has nothing at all to do with this incident.
You’re pathetic.
Wanker.
—- And you still owe me an apology, ahole.
Knew you wouldn’t and it has everything to do with why I called you all MAGA conservatoves hypocrites. My position stands. No apology necessary.
When you spread lies about someone else, you owe them an apology.
Unless you’re an anus….
If you won’t condemn the Jan 6ers for beating capitol police and the injustice of them being pardoned given you love of punishing this brown man for doing the same thing, then nope. You are what you are, whether you like it or not.
I am a black woman with a black son who has been incarcerated in the Guilford County detention center. What the prisoner did was wrong but the detention officer was wrong as well. If he was so upstanding his body camera would have remained on. Just saying…
You are right. Detention officers should be ables defend themselves BAMN if assaulted. Not vengance.
She’s right, you know.
I’m thinking the first officer the inmate assaulted was Parkers wife or girlfriend
But you don’t believe politicians or illegals should follow the law. How about Biden bringing in 8,000 illegals per day for four years? Is that okay?
Send this criminal to Gitmo, where he belongs.
Chris is ok with ILLEGALS breaking the law coming here. He says after all it’s only a minor offense. I think he has a sanctuary farm for them
I was all for closing the asylum loophole with actual immigration reform. Conservatives blocked the first real attempt at reform in decades so Trump could just overspend on border security to battle the symptoms of our poor immigration policy versus actually solving the problem by reforming our laws.
Trump is wasting money for a problem that would have been solved by real immigration reform versus more expensive inhuman police state actions typically found under fascist regimes. “Show me your papers”
I believe politicians and illegals should follow the law. Never said different. But you don’t get to make up laws in attempt to frame a politician as having broken the law so you can justify locking him up because you don’t like his political position on a topic.
In the case of Biden, i didn’t like his slow action to slow the number of asylum seekers into the US. I did however, like his attempt to change the ACTUAL LAWS he was FOLLOWING in allowing so many asylum seekers. Trump had that law blocked so he could keep his boogeyman and promote his racist view that immigrants from South America don’t add value to our economy.
You start to sound like a fascist when you start expressing desire for political opponents to be locked up without due process. Kinda the conservative move of late. Don’t fall for it.
But go ahead and tell me what law Biden broke that should have him locked up? Be specific. Bet you can’t. Besides, conservatives have made it official that presidents can’t break the law because they support the fascist view that the President is the law and is accountable to no one.
But you be you.
Biden broke the law with his involvement with Hunter and the Ukraine oil company. Then he proved it when he pardoned Hunter for all past and any future crimes, as well as Jill and his White House cronies who helped cover up his mental decline. And also you have said several times in this forum that you don’t believe
ILLEGALS who crossed the border illegally should be arrested because it’s only a minor crime. You said the same thing about driving with expired tags, that it’s only a minor issue
Get outta here…..go ahead and tell me Trumps family isn’t profiting off his presidency and I will call you a fool. Crypto scams, middle Eastern deals, Bible sales, crappy gold phones, etc….
Trump has turned the presidency in a junk sale all for his personal profit.
What a joke.
Chris I haven’t heard President Trump say that South American’s don’t add any value to America. He said that if you’re here ILLEGALLY, you either register and leave voluntarily or you will be arrested, then deported, with little chance to ever return
Selective hearing must be a thing for the MAGA group. Trump literally said ‘When Mexico sends it’s people. they are not sending their best. They’re not send you. they’re sending people that have lots of problems and their bringing those problems with us. they’re bringing they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. …”
Get bent. Trump is a racist. Always has been and always will be. Most Mican immigrants I have met and worked with are amazing hardworking honest people.
But you be you.
Wow, damn quick assumptions you are making Chris. What happened to your research on this matter?
Why is this Chris guy trying to turn it into a racial issue?
Just showing the hypocrisy of conservstives treating white men attacking police as heros from Jan 6th riot but then praising the vigilante beat down of a black man for attacking an officer in prison. How do you justify the difference in conservative emotions on these similar scenarios of officers of the law being attacked while doing their jobs?
Chris I don’t think that the man who tried to stab the officer was black
But the victim of the beatdown was NOT a black man. You can’t even get the basic facts of the incident right.
But you still try to twist things to attack conservatives.
You are mentally ill, and stupid.
Correct, he was Brown. Same difference to the conservatives who are happy to see him beaten but call the white attackers of police at the Caiptol heros.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
– Same difference to a prejudiced bigot who won’t let the facts get in the way of his opinions.
Chris: I’d like to hear your response if you had to work with criminals who were attempting to kill you.
I would defend myself using any force necessary. But once the issue is resolved, let due process handle the inmates additional punishment.
Not complicated. Guards dont get to stoop to the type of actions used by the thugs they have under guard in the prison.
But you be you
Hey Chris. Do you think brown is the new black
Asking for a friend
Chris who said anything about the color of the inmates skin, why did you bring that into the discussion
Not one conservative has been able to address the hypocrisy of treating Jan 6ers who attacked police as heros yet are ready to hang this guy for the same crime……know why?
Hypocrites. Kinda the conservative jam.
That’s all.
I’ve never seen anywhere on here that anyone wants to hang this detention officer out to dry.
Because it’s a false analogy.
Completely irrelevant to this incident.
Conservatives
White People who attack police officers are hero’s and given presidential pardon
Also conservatives
Brown man attacks guard deserves to be beaten in his cell by vigilante guard.
Hypocrites purse and simple. Not one of you can explain the difference but get upset at being called out for your hypocrisy and bigotry.
Chris this is off of the subject here but it is a topic you’re fond of. Just saw the story on the news and read it in the paper. The High Point Police responded to a shots fired on Centennial St.
They stopped a car for a minor traffic violation an lo and behold guess what. They arrested 5 black men, all were charged for carrying loaded concealed weapons, 1 of which was stolen from
Thomasville. I know you’re against Police making minor traffic stops but I personally applaud what they did. In this instance we will never know how many lives were saved by the “minor “ traffic stop. Just thought I’d give you something else to be mad about today. But as you say “you be you”. Have a great 4th of July and be sure to thank President Trump for the great job that he’s doing.
Chris let me ask you about this hypocrisy of all the blm rioters who attacked Police and then burned, looted and destroyed millions of dollars in property damage in multiple cities that had absolutely nothing to do with the property owners. Guess how many were arrested or prosecuted. The majority of the “peaceful protesters” were black. How do you explain that hypocrisy
Chris the inmate is an illegal just thought you should know
Here here Al my thoughts exactly. A medal and a raise b
Yeah, he fixed the situation.
Jose won’t try to stab another jail guard anytime soon.
Only a fool would believe this to be true. This will only motivate the criminal to more strongly desire to attack the guard that gave him the beating. That is how the cycle of violence works. If the officers cant control their behavior how and why would they expect the prisonors to behave. That just makes the guards yet another gang in the mix of prison life.
Well I’d say the inmate messed around with the wrong officer and found out.
It’s scary either way. This is crazy that he tried to stab an officer. If the officer didn’t do anything, NOTHING would have came of it. The guy wasn’t gonna get in any trouble basically. What if he would have actually stabbed him??? This story may have ended really bad. His family may have been notified of something bad. If that was my dad, son, brother, nephew,uncle ,friend I would have wanted him to get some kinda of justice for this man trying to stab him !!!!! Like what?!?!? Sooo yeah the officer let him know that wasn’t okay and that there was consequences for trying to stab him. He didn’t go back to gbat man and try to kill him he went amd gave him a whopping he deserved. Now he has consequences as well that he has to face. Which what’s right is right. That man is in jail for attempting to kill someone sooo why would the officer who he tried to stab not take that as he was trying to kill him too. I mean come on now. It doesn’t have anything to do with color !!!!!!!
You are right, Kesha.
– I support the black jail guard.
In the narrow view of this case color doesn’t have anything to do with it for sure. But reread the article, the officer that put the beating on the prisoner wasn’t the same guard that was attacked by the prisoner. He was just a guard playing gang life no different than the life the prisoner likely came from where violence begets violence.
The race issue is that conservatives seem ok when white rioters attacking police but not when minority person does the same thing…….
This whole situation is bad, but the common denominator is that the prisoner has been held for over 5 YEARS, yes OVER 5 YEARS. He didn’t even kill anyone. Why can’t our DA’s office move these cases faster. Why can’t they get with the Defense Attorneys and make Plea offers. It would save the state money, less drawn-out trials years down the road, save the Sheriff’s Office time and money managing these folks. I hear there are over 80 people awaiting trial on Murder charges in Guilford County and most have been waiting YEARS!!! Thats unacceptable from the DA’s office. Many victims’ families need justice and this isn’t right.
Chris is the only one that brought up race which is why things won’t change. This inmate is such a problem that he has to have two guards to escort him around. He tried to stab one of the guards if not both. The other guard decided that he had his fellow guard’s back and beat the hell out of the man. He knew he would be fired and probably face other charges but HE made a choice. Chris ,, you are so wrong there are not enough words to describe you . Its sad that you are going through life mad at the world. Bless your Heart
It isn’t as much the race as the hypocrisy of conservatives being ok with white rioters on Jan 6th versus BLM rioters and in this example of conservatives calling a guy a hero for beating a brown guy who attacked a cop but calling Jan 6th rioters who beat up cops heroes.
You explain the difference that makes it ok for white people to attack police but if a brown or black person does it then it is not only wrong (which it is) but then conservatives here praise Vigilante gang type justice as being warranted. Weird.
Make that make sense if not racial?
Inmate got just what he deserved. We lost a good officer over a dangerous piece of scum.
Lol, you lost a gang member wanna be guard who was no better than the people he was guarding. HE got what he deserved.
Correct.
FAFO
It boils down to this, the detention officer let his emotions get the better part of him and he reacted in a negative fashion. This is truly a sad situation, both for the officer and the Sheriff’s Office. Sadly, this occurs with a great deal of frequency in law enforcement and until you have walked in those shoes it is not an easy thing to understand.
Austin First off I hope you and yours have a wonderful and safe 4th of July. Great news for our country coming back. As of July 1 all landlords in Tennessee have to verify the legal status of all people that they rent to, if caught renting to ILLEGALS they can be fined or arrested. Idaho passed too many new laws to list but goggle new laws in Idaho as of July 1. I think you’ll be pleased. Lastly Sean Duffy the transportation secretary sent out letters this week to all 50 governors that all rainbow crosswalks have to be eliminated, that crosswalks and roadways are for transportation and safety purposes, not political statements
God Bless America and President Donald Trump Trump
Hear, hear ! I am grateful to be living my life in the USA. What a great country.
Growing up in England & Wales I would greet people with “Happy Fourth!” every July 4th. They’d just roll their eyes, but I was always an American at heart. That’s one of the great things about America; it’s a belief system and a set of values, and they belong to all people who hold those beliefs.
If you say you’re a German, an Italian, or an Irishman, you’re making a statement about your DNA, your ancestry and biological makeup. But if you say you’re an American, you’re making a statement about your values, because America belongs to all people who believe in freedom and the sovereignty of the people over the state.
Power does not flow from the top down, but from the bottom up.
I’m an immigrant but I have never been in illegal status. I have too much respect for this country.
And I too am thrilled at the Trump administration. A crosswalk is no place for a political staement, let alone one that is made by government itself, Otherwise, why could there not be crosswalks painted with swastikas?
Ha, ha, ha… can you imagine the ACLU and the New York Times in that case? But they’re silent when it’s fawning over (deleted) Such barefaced hypocrites, but that’s Leftism for you.
Happy Fourth!
I was thinking about the same thing but they would probably pull their hair out if it were Confederate Flags
We are a country of immigrants that hates immigrants and refugees. We are a country that wants to limit free speech to only those things that are OK with white Christians. We are a country to doesn’t care about the poor or disadvantaged any longer and apply blanket an assumption that their struggles are their fault for being lazy. We are a country to is no longer the champion of protecting free democracy around the globe as we are in praise of the dictators and authoritarians. We are now a country of isolationism as we shune global trade. And worst of all we are a country of ignorance as we attack higher education, scientific research and innovation.
We are a far less great nation than we used to be thanks to modern Conservatives bigotry, ignorance and hate.
I am sure some MAGA hat goof will say, just leave then….because that is what ignorant people do. They isolate, they shelter their ignorance and hate among like minded fools who huddle and pat each others backs for their angry words against those that have differing views.
I am staying and fighting to make America great again by working for the defeat of the ignorance that drives the modern conservatives that vote against their own self interests in order to preseve their narrow ignorant view of a complex and challenging world.
But you be you
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LOL !
Seek counseling.
Austin I think its too late, I believe TDS has destroyed what little brain he may have had at one point
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Oh my God.
The most toxic poisonous person in this thread now wants to portray himself as some kind of heroic martyr.
He spews vile and vicious lies about me, he fails even to try to back them up (because they are false and fraudulent), and yet refuses to apologize.
What a disgusting and wicked little snake.
LOL, the three blind mice all lined up again.
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Yeah, but you’re always in a minority of one, aren’t you?
You can never get anyone to support you.
And you are universally disliked.
But you think you’re a hero.
You’re mentally ill.
I am the minority one with his eyes open among an army of blind mice following their dear leader off the cliff.
Best wishes.
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This guy Chris reminds me of Charles Manson. or Jim Jones.
Yeah Trump reminds me of them too.