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Incident. police said they planned to take linwood lambert inside for mental care, but after he broke their squad car window, they tased him repeatedly while he was cuffed and took him to jail where he died in custody. prosecutors are reviewing an investigation to decide whether to charge the officers. but new records from that inquiry and handwritten police statements obtained exclusively by msnbc show police made claims contradicted by the video. one of the three officers, corporal tiffany bra...

>> reporter: when video first surfaced last month of police repeatedly tasing a man in the entrance of a virginia hospital, little was none about the incident. police said they planned to take him inside for mental care but after he broke their squad car window, they tased him repeatedly while he was cuffed and took him to jail where he died in custody. prosecutors are reviewing an investigation to decide whether to charge the officers. but new records from that inquiry and handwritten police st...

Officers take him to the police station. >> youre under arrest. stand up. >> reporter: the officers tase lambert multiple times. hes bleeding, apparently from breaking the squad car window. by the time they reach the police station, lambert appears unconscious in the backseat. he was later announced dead after going into cardiac arrest according to the medical examiners report. the report ruled it as acute cocaine intoxication. the family blames the police and they filed a $25 million wrongful d...

Breaking the squad car window. by the time they reach the police station, lambert appears unconscious in the backseat. he was later pronounced dead at the hospital after going into cardiac arrest according to the medical examiners report. the report ruled the cause of death as acute cocaine intoxication. but the family blames the police. and they filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit alleging, quote, the officers callous disregard for linwood lambert in tasing him multiple times and deprivi...

>> we gonna take you to the emergency room and gonna get you looked at make sure you good to go. >> inside the patrol car, police say he kicked out the window. then the video shows lambert running straight into the hospital doors while hand cuffed. he falls to the ground and the officers repeatedly ask him to roll over on to his stomach while threatening to tase him. >> on your stomachish -- >> lambert then admits he was on drugs. >> i just did cocaine. >> but instead of taking him inside the em...

While hand cuffed. falls to the ground and officers ask him to roll over on his stomach as they tase him. lambert admits he was on drugs. >> i just took cocaine. >> reporter: instead of taking him inside the emergency room, he was taken to the police station. the officers tase lambert multiple times. he is bleeding apparently from breaking the squad car window. by the time he appears at the police station, he was unconscious in the backseat. he went into cardiac arrest according to the medical e...

While threatening to tase him. >> on your stomach! >> reporter: lambert then admits hes on drugs. instead of taking him to the emergency room, the officers take him to the police situation. the officers tase lambert multiple time, hes bleeding apparently from breaking the squad car window. by the time they get to the police station, lambert is unconscious in the backseat. he was later placed under arrest and going into cardiac arrest. the family blames the police and they filed a $25 million wro...

Tase him. lambert then admits hes on drugs. but in stead of taking him inside the emergency room, officers take him to the police station. >> youre under arrest, stand up. >> reporter: the officers tase lambert multiple times. hes bleeding apparently from breaking the squad car window. by the time they reach the police station lambert is unconscious in the back seat and then taken to the hospital after going into cardiac arrest according to the medical examiners report. the autopsy says intoxica...

>> reporter: inside the patrol car, police say he kicked out the window. then, the video shows lambert running straight into the hospital doors while handcuffed. >> get on your belly. >> reporter: he falls to the ground and the officers repeatedly ask him to roll over on to his stomach while threatening to tase him. he admits that he was on drugs. but instead of taking him in the emergency room, they take him to the jail. hes bleeding from breaking the squad car window. by the time they reach th...

Calls made for noise. because of the way lambert was acting, he was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluati evaluation. he made comments about killing two people and hiding their bodies in the ceiling. >> we will take you to the emergency room. >> reporter: police say he kicked out the window. th then the video shows lambert running away. lambert then admits he was on drugs. >> i just took cocaine. >> reporter: instead of taking him in the emergency room, he was taken to the police st...