Shock Video: Man Dies in Jail Lobby After Encounter with Sheriff’s Deputies
"I can't breathe," witnesses claim they heard man say
The brother of a man who died after an encounter with Dallas County sheriff’s deputies says shocking video footage proves deputies are responsible for his brother’s death.
The man’s brother, James Hutcheson, gives an emotional narration of video released by the Dallas County sheriff’s department last week.
Surveillance footage, released by the sheriff’s department last Friday, shows 48-year-old Arlington resident Joseph Sheldon Hutcheson frantically running inside the Dallas County jail lobby on August 1.
Witnesses say Hutcheson was not violent, but appeared distraught and was seeking help.
“He came in saying, ‘Don’t be scared of me. I just need some help.’ They just tackled him as if he’d threatened their lives,” witness April Berryhill told The Dallas Morning News. “He didn’t have a weapon. He wasn’t swinging at the officers. He just needed help.”
Berryhill told The Morning News “she saw a deputy with a knee on Hutcheson’s back and another with a knee on his throat. Hutcheson said he couldn’t breathe and his face had turned pale blue, so the deputies uncuffed him.”
After a few moments, Hutcheson lies motionless as visitors continue to pour into the lobby. Officers are seen attempting to resuscitate him to no avail.
The full video shows an emergency rescue crew arrive and perform multiple resuscitation attempts for nearly 30 minutes before loading him onto a stretcher, as several onlookers ordered to wait outside peer through the lobby window.
Following a month-long investigation, the Dallas County Medical Examiner on Monday declared Hutcheson’s death a homicide, blaming the “combined toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine, combined by hypertensive cardiovascular disease and physiological stress associated with struggle and restraint,” according to CBS DFW.
“It is apparent from the ruling that Mr. Hutcheson died at the hands of another,” the attorney representing Hutcheson’s family, Scott Palmer, stated at a press conference. “We believe without the assault by the Sheriff’s deputies, Mr. Hutcheson would still be alive today.”
Hutcheson’s family says they were also upset to discover that the organs in his throat “were missing” after hiring a private pathologist to conduct a second autopsy.
Hutcheson’s wife Nicole notes in the days following her husband’s death the department further attempted to “dehumanize” him, asserting they had found drugs in his truck.
“Two days later, the office corrected that, saying there were no drugs,” reports The Dallas Morning News.
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department declined to comment to NBC DFW following release of the medical examiner’s determination, and did not indicate whether a grand jury investigation would ensue. A spokesperson with the department said all six officers involved “were reassigned several weeks ago.”
Hutcheson’s brother, James, is organizing a demonstration at the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department building on Friday evening.
“133 N Riverfront Blvd Dallas, Texas 75207 on Friday Sept 4th 2015 at 7pm please show up if you can. This could be your brother.”
http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-man-dies-in-jail-lobby-after-encounter-with-sheriffs-deputies/
1 comment:
Unless someone saw him take the drugs, there is nothing to say it was put into him without his consent, and could be why he went to the police station seeking help; but we'll never know, because people always assume drug use is consent, when they forget the brownie weed that some people have eaten without knowing it was in there.
Today, injections can do a lot of things to people.
The tactic of one man's body having to hold up two, three, four, or five full grown men on his body, is absurd.
If more then two men or crushing his body with their full weight, then they are culpable.
Once someone says they can't breathe, a medical personnel should be called to the site to supervise the apprehension because people do NOT BELONG to the police, our bodies do NOT BELONG to the police, and anything they do to our bodies still require our consent, and not being able to breathe is not something we consent, to.
Of course, later they could have gotten the consent when he signs papers to 'get into jail', or sign papers 'to pay for what's already his - his freedom'.
Death before the bonding out could be homicide or some other felony, but after the contract, no jury would find them guilty, it would be part of the consideration they got for signing up to be there and signing up to 'accept' the charges against them.
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