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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 bratton seen here outside of her car told investigators her 15 taser discharges were necessary because ...

>> 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 statements obtained exclusively by msnbc show police made claims contradicted by the video. one of the...

Officers take him to the police station. >> you're under arrest. stand up. >> reporter: the officers tase lambert multiple times. he's 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 examiner's report. the report ruled it as acute cocaine intoxication. the family blames the police and they filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit, alleging the officer's callous disregard for lynwood lambert, tasing him several ti...

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 examiner's 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 depriving him of the desperate medical care he needed violated his constitutional rights to be free from c...

>> 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 emergency room the officers take him to the police station. the officers tase lambert multiple times. ...