Broward Sheriff’s detention deputy found guilty of battery after beating inmate with flashlight

A veteran Broward Sheriff’s Office detention deputy has been found guilty of battery after he hit an inmate’s fingers and hands with his flashlight over 40 times, Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor announced Friday.

After a three-day trial and a two-hour deliberation, a jury found detention deputy Delroy Rose, 57, guilty of misdemeanor battery Thursday.

The jury found that on Oct. 29, 2020, Rose, a 20-year veteran, repeatedly hit the inmate with his flashlight after the inmate threw a paper cup out of his cell while Rose and another staff member distributed medications in the North Broward Bureau male infirmary unit, a medical unit.

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Rose walked over to the cell door and attempted to close the door flap, according to the arrest report, but the 24-year-old inmate kept his hand in the way. Rose hit the inmate’s hands and fingers until he was able to close it.

“Our goal is to do justice and ensure that offenders are held accountable whether they wear a badge or not,” Pryor said in a news release.

Rose will be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 10 by Judge John D. Fry. He could face up to 364 days in jail.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel previously reported that Rose was removed from his detention duties during the State Attorney’s Office investigation and had been suspended without pay in August 2021.

Rose’s current employment status at the Sheriff’s Office was unclear Friday afternoon.