A Hall County jailer was fired Monday for striking a handcuffed inmate “without due cause,” the Hall County Sheriff’s Office stated in a press release. The incident involving David Pirkle took place inside the jail on Dec. 30. “While disappointed by Pirkle’s actions, it was reassuring that the other jailers present brought the misconduct to their supervisor’s attention for an investigation,” sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Kiley Sargent said in the release.