MAN SUES POLICE FOR $5 MILLION AFTER BEING TORTURED (WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO)

PRINEVILLE, Ore. -

Curtis Hooper of Prineville is suing two counties, the city of Prineville and 15 people in federal court for more than $5 million. Having had frequent run-ins with the law, he says police in Jefferson and Crook county have harassed him for years. But last year, he says, it was taken to a new level.

Hooper is still recovering from what he says a former Jefferson County Jail deputy did to him in May of 2010.

"It's hard to get over," Hooper said Monday.

Photos provided to NewsChannel 21 show Hooper's left hand last May, bloodied and with his fingernails turning black and blue.

"I passed out -- as soon as they opened the door, I passed out," said Hooper.

Information NewsChannel 21 was given confirms deputy Rob Robbins kicked a steel door shut on Hooper's hand. Eight days later, Robbins was fired. Robbins was charged with assault and later agreed to a plea deal in Wasco County as the case was tried before the district attorney in The Dalles.

"While they did something, it was too little, too late," said Hooper's attorney, Andrew Mathers, who filed the suit late last month.

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