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Body camera footage released by a South Carolina sheriff’s office this week revealed that a Black man with a mental illness was tased and pepper-sprayed several times by officers before he died in January in police custody.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office late Thursday released hours of footage to the public from the Jan. 5 incident, in which police attempted to forcibly remove 31-year-old Jamal Sutherland from his cell for a bond hearing.
Authorities said that Sutherland was arrested the day before after a fight broke out at a psychiatric facility where he had been receiving treatment for diagnoses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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RECENTLY released bodycamera footage shows the horrific moments before a mentally ill black man died in a South Carolina jail.
The footage shows deputies repeatedly deploying stun guns before Jamal Sutherland, who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, becomes unresponsive.
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Sutherland was stunned while cops tried to remove him from his cellCredit: Charleston County Sheriff s Office
Sutherland died on January 5 at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston after the deputies stunned him while trying to remove him from his cell.
The deputies were reportedly trying to take Sutherland to a bond hearing for a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from a fight he got into at a behavioral health care clinic he had been staying at.
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(NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.) The Department of Justice and the FBI are investigating the death of a Black man with a mental illness at a South Carolina jail, as newly released body camera footage showed deputies repeatedly deploying stun guns before he became unresponsive.
Jamal Sutherland died on Jan. 5 at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston after deputies attempted to remove him from his cell to attend a bond hearing for a misdemeanor assault charge that morning, according to a state prosecutor investigating the incident.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office released hours of body camera footage Thursday night at the request of Sutherland’s family, who are calling for the officers involved to be fired.