Video shows officers' force
	[Video: Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
	This Aug. 17 video clip taken by a security camera at Enterprise Car Rental on 5th Avenue N in St. Petersburg shows Pinellas County Sheriff's Office narcotics personnel taking Desmond Small, 26, and Christopher Lobban, 20, into custody. Officers thought the men had been involved in a marijuana deal, but had the wrong guys. The two sergeants who initially enter with their guns drawn were suspended without pay for 12 days and placed on workplace probation for a year for use of unecessary force and other violations of Sheriff's Office rules. Because they are undercover investigators, their faces are obscured and the Sheriff's Office is not releasing their names. In the video, Small is on the right in a white T-shirt; Lobban on the left. Pinellas County on Tuesday settled with the men for $100,000. In return for the settlement money, the Small and Lobban gave up the right to take further legal action against the county or the Sheriff's Office.
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