“It's Lewd, Egregious, Salacious, Outrageous!”

Federal court on Monday is set to hear the 2005 case of a man beaten by three Austin police officers.

Ramon Hernandez was beaten and shocked with a Taser during a September 2005 arrest for leaving the scene of an accident, a charge that was later dismissed. That following March, two of the officers involved were found not guilty of official oppression. …

Yet for Ramon Hernandez, his family and attorneys, the case was never over. They have waited nearly three years for this civil trial.

Video from a dashboard camera showed Ramon Hernandez as he was handcuffed, with his face in an ant bed, and shocked with a Taser 11 times. He was also kicked and punched more than a dozen times.

“Maybe, it's the aftereffects of the tasing. Maybe, it's the blunt force trauma. But I forgive them for what they did in my heart, and with my faith, we all make mistakes, we're all human,” Hernandez said. …

“Civil rights trials define what is acceptable in our community,” said Amber Vazquez Bode, attorney for Hernandez. “You give me one brain addled victim of police abuse on that jury, and Mr. Hernandez is gonna go home a rich man!”