Brandon Bethea was 24-years-old when Harnett County detention officers followed him into a padded cell and shot him in the chest with a taser. Bethea fell to the ground, still in leg shackles, as the officer pulled the trigger twice more jolting him with electricity. They left the cell, waiting 20 minutes to check if he was alive. He couldn’t be revived....
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/north-carolina-police-tasered-mentally-ill-man-death-jail-then-covered-it
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