Police officials in Alabama are facing a lawsuit after one former inmate alleges that officials used a Burmese Python to scare him. Ana Kasparian (The Point), Becca Frucht (Pop Sugar), and Karomo Brown hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“Two recently fired Alabama cops are being accused of using a giant six-foot tropical snake to terrorize an inmate in the local jail nearly two years ago.

On Monday, Trawick Redding Jr., of Ozark, Alabama, filed a $3 million federal lawsuit against Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson, two correctional officers, and other jail staff who he said were aware of the incident.

The lawsuit alleges that the two former officers, Zeneth Glenn and Ryan Mittlebach, held a 6’7″ Burmese python just inches from Redding’s face to terrorize him while he was incarcerated.”