Jimmy Earl Drummond, a Houston lawman, has been charged with official oppression after he was caught on camera beating a man restrained in handcuffs, and lying on his stomach, during an arrest two years ago.

Drummond, who's currently suspended from his position as a captain with Montgomery County Precinct 3 Constable's Office, was working as a Harris County Precinct 4 Constables deputy at the time of the Sept. 10, 2011 arrest of David Braxton Scherz Jr., who said he suffered broken ribs as result of the beating.

"We were optimistic because of the clear video," Randall Kalliinen, a civil rights attorney, told Houston's ABC affiliate, KRTK. "And the fact that the publi