Video shows South Carolina deputies repeatedly tasing Black man before he dies in jail

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News

Tim Fitzsimons 1 hr ago


Officials in South Carolina on Friday released hours of body-worn camera footage and details about the final hours of the life of Jamal Sutherland, a Black man who died in January after he was pepper-sprayed and electroshocked with a taser in his jail cell.



Jamal Sutherland in released video from before died at the Al Cannon Detention Center in North
Charleston, S.C. (Charleston County Sheriff's Office)© Provided by NBC News Jamal Sutherland
in released video from before died at the Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston, S.C.
(Charleston County Sheriff's Office)

Sutherland, 31, was arrested on Jan. 4 after a "large scale fight" broke out at a psychiatric facility where he was receiving mental health treatment, according to a statement from North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey. He said the city police department did its job delivering Sutherland "safely" from the facility to the jail.

The next morning, Charleston County sheriff's deputies attempted to remove Sutherland from his cell for a bond hearing.

In the video, two sheriff's deputies are outside Sutherland's jail cell and one deploys a taser, or stun gun, and appears to use it repeatedly as Sutherland cries out in pain and writhes on the floor.

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[dchill]

1. How very antebellum. So genteel.

[Judi Lynn]

2. More of that Suthren Chawm.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Would an actual iron bar cell concentrate taser impact?

Don't know what kind of cell they refer to, but I'd wonder if a taser in a small iron or metal enclosure would be more like an electrocution.

[notinkansas]

4. Murder charges pending?

[marble falls]

5. Complying, kneeling on the floor, ankles crossed and hands behind his back to be handcuffed ..

... and tased after he was handcuffed.

And the Sheriff actually says this event "gives them a good opportunity" to study and fix the system.

[ck4829]

6. Disgusting

[brush]

7. That profession seems to attract closet sadists...

who love to dispense pain.