A Mississippi police officer has been charged with forcing a person who was being booked in jail to lick urine off the floor of a holding cell, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents filed this month. Michael Christian Green was charged with one federal count of deprivation of rights under color of law, according to a criminal information filed earlier this month.
The document alleges that Green, who was a patrolman for the Pearl Police Department, forced someone to lick urine off the cell floor after a December arrest. The man, who was being booked after a disturbance at a Sam’s Club on Dec. 23, knocked on the door of a holding cell and said he needed to urinate, prosecutors wrote. After a period of time, the man urinated in a corner, the document states. Green allegedly threatened to beat him with a phone and commanded him to “lick it up,” prosecutors wrote. Green stood in a doorway while the man, who gagged and later vomited in a trash can, did so, the document says. Green recorded it on his cellphone, prosecutors wrote