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To take him to the e.r. >> we're going to take you to the emergency room and get you looked at and make sure you good to go. >> reporter: but once at the hospital, police video shows lambert kicking out the patrol car window. he runs straight into the closed emergency room doors. the officers surround him and start tasing him. lambert admits he's on drugs and asks for help. >> i just did cocaine, man. >> reporter: instead, police shackle his legs and put him back in a police car. >> obviously, the scenario change from a mental health observation to one of ka stoed yell. they placed him under a...

Shows three hospitals in south foster, virginia, tasing a man outside of emergency room. shortly after, that man died in police custody. the video begins with officers picking lambert up at a hotel early one morning in may of 2013. after several 911 call, made about noise. and in court records police say because of the way lambert was acting, they decided to take him to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. they say he made comments about murdering two people and hiding their bodies in the ceiling. >> we're going to take you out to hospital and we're going to get you -- make sure you're...

Make sure you're good to go. >> reporter: during the ride, police video shows lambert becomes increasingly agitated. as the squad car pulls into the e.r. >> don't kick your window. don't kick your window. quit kicking the window. quit kicking the window. calm down. calm down. >> reporter: lambert, his hands catched behind his back, kicks out the window and sprints towards the emergency room, ramming the sliding doors. three officers draw their tasers and appear to make contact. lambert falls forward. >> get on your belly. >> reporter: instead of having him evaluated by doctors, the police put ...

From cruel and unusual punishment. and the south boston police department released a statement saying we are vigorously defending this case. our position is confirmed by the reports of two well qualified experts in the field. cnn attempted to reach the south boston police as well as the virginia state police who picked up this investigation of lambert's death. important to note the medical examiner said while cocaine was cause of death, there were three puncture wounds that looked like they were from a taser. cnn was not able to independently verify how many times lambert was tasered. >> we br...

While threatening to tase him. >> on your stomach! >> reporter: lambert then admits he's on drugs. instead of taking him to the emergency room, the officers take him to the police situation. the officers tase lambert multiple time, he's 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 wrongful death lawsuit alleging the officers' countless disregard for lynwood lambert in tasering him...