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The Pulaski County sheriff's office released security and body camera footage Friday afternoon showing a December arrest that ended in the death of a man, one week after a prosecutor cleared the officers involved of any wrongdoing, attributing the death to a rare and hard-to-detect sickle cell disease complication.
The Pulaski County sheriff's office released security and body camera footage Friday afternoon showing a December arrest that ended in the death of a man, one week after a prosecutor cleared the officers involved of any wrongdoing, attributing the death to a rare and hard-to-detect sickle cell disease complication.
A man who died in the custody of Pulaski County deputies in December after a struggle at a Little Rock movie theater likely succumbed to a rare sickle cell disease-related ailment, and the officers involved behaved properly and could not have known the seriousness of his condition, or helped him if they had, a county prosecutor wrote in a Friday letter summing up his review of the incident.
Pulaski County prosecutor announced on Friday that they will not be filing charges against law enforcement involved in the 2021 in-custody death of Terence Caffey.
Four Pulaski County sheriff's office employees placed on administrative leave after a man died last month in the agency's custody have now returned to work, though one of them is restricted to certain duties as an internal investigation continues, according to a news release from the agency Thursday.