Man who died after being Tased

The video, from an in incident in 2013, shows the South Boston, Virginia officers repeatedly shocking then-46-year-old Linwood R. Lambert, Jr.as he ran from a police cruiser and again when he was restrained in the squad car’s back seat. Halifax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tracy Quackenbush Martin said in an email that the investigation into Lambert’s death remained open.

They also took him away from the hospital, instead taking him to jail.

One officer was asked by a hospital worker whether the officers were bringing Lambert in for treatment. Three officers, Cpl. Tiffany Bratton, Officer Clifton Mann and Officer Travis Clay, ran after him and tased him simultaneously. Lambert’s body goes stiff and, with his hands cuffed, his arms could not break the fall when he hit the cement.

“He’s in handcuffs, and they tase him one time, and he’s on the ground”.

Nurses and hospital staff watched from inside.

After pleading with the officers not to kill him, he told them that he was on cocaine.

Eventually, the video showed Lambert kicking out a police vehicle window and running towards the hospital, which was when when officers tasered him. An officer then tells Lambert to stop and calm down.

Lambert was unconscious when they arrived at the jail. However, as he refused to comply, the they began tasing Linwood Lambert with their stun guns. Lambert was pronounced dead at 6:23 a.m.at Sentara Halifax, where the officers had originally planned to take him. He is then placed under arrest for disorderly conduct.

As reported by Taser.com, stun guns are “deployed 904 times per day” by civilians, law enforcement officials, and the military.

Linwood Lambert reportedly died in police custody after being tased a total of 20 times.

Those discharges amount to roughly 87 total seconds of potential tasing – a level capable of inflicting serious injury or death, according to federal guidelines. Lambert was black, two male officers were white and the race of the third officer, a woman, could not be determined from the videos. None of the officers have been criminally charged.

“We got the phone call that he had died, while in police custody”, Lambert’s sister, Gwendolyn Smalls told MSNBC. She kept calling the police and hospital, asking for details, but says she was only told that her brother was repeatedly combative, and then he died at the hospital. Police did not provide her the videos, or information from them.

Lambert’s family has filed a $25 million lawsuit accusing police of using excessive force and violating his civil rights.

Smalls is suing the department; a court order related to the suit forced the police to give her the videos. She first viewed footage last month. “I’m leaving no stone left unturned, and it’s my hope that people and the press will see that when it’s over”, she said. “I’m so sorry for what they did” to him because I didn’t know”, Gwendolyn Smalls said. “They used so much force with a man who was already restrained”.

An attorney for Lambert’s family didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from the AP.