Graphic new body camera video shows the police treatment of Jarvis Evans who died in custody while suffering from a mental health episode. NBC News’ Maya Eaglin spoke with Evans’ mother after the family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Laurens County sheriff in South Carolina. Warning: Some viewers may find the footage difficult to watch.
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They need to be held accountable bottom line they took his life they should get life behind bars this needs to stop people it’s said that Laurens county has these messy police on the force Mrs Evens I’m so sorry you had to go through this but don’t let it go without justice being served
More to this story than what they are showing……it will come out should have been handled differently outcome would not have been same if the correct steps were taken.
"Allegedly tazed him" as you hear ZzzZzzzap
What's the real story? The media is covering up what really happened.
PINKY POWER ARE COWARDS.
Caucasians should be sent back to the Caucasus mountains in Russia.
35th generation Deb Haaland must laugh at 2nd generation patriot wannabe Trump.
Sue Tucker and FoxTV for pushing replacement theory.
When is all this senseless murdering of our brothas and sistas gonna stop 🛑
And that fat 🐷 was smiling the entire time 😤😠😡🤬
That was murder🙄
This is disgusting
I hate when people call the cops for mental breakdowns because they don't know how to handle the situation
Hope you keep us updated on what the jury decides
They said he called the wrong people he should've called the ambulance, you never call the cops if you are having a mental health problem especially if you are black or brown they are not doctors they are the under takers only there to take your life dummy.
Racist
Reprehensible treatment. The situation required medical/mental health intervention, not brutality/tasers. Despicable.
I hope the lawsuit is a lesson for the department to do better than this in the future.
Back the Blue until it happens to you! These thugs deserve to spend life in prison for there treasonous acts to a mentally ill person. There is no excuse for killing a man that called them for help even if he was on a drug. The thin Blue line gang needs to be dismantled and held accountable for every wrong they do to the public,and no hiding behind government immunity either!
thats a muder straight up rest in peace homie
Don't do the crime and you won't have to do the time . SMH
Hopefully, there will be follow ups to this video with more definitive answers.
This crap is getting old. Back to playing my PS5.
you could see how much he was sweating when the video started when the cop had him from the back of the neck
so what was he being arrested for in the first place? and it doesn't look like a mental health episode, looks like he got mad that he was caught. and will never understand the point of resisting when you are surrounded by police.
Be honest they killed that 👨
They tortured that man
Why, oh why are Black (African) Americans so long suffering and patient? The fact that the reporter says allegedly proves of how little worth your experiences are. Had this unfortunate man been white…..!
This is MURDER!
MURDERERS!!!
Shame on ALL OF THOSE OFFICERS!!! You are KILLERS.
You can see this police enjoying inflicting pain on someone who called them for help, that why I will never call them unless I am ready to go to haven.
How can you trust people who supposed to help but instead they are the one who kills you.
This is disgusting and sick! This man calls 911 for help and is arrested tortured and killed!! Some of those cops had the look of pleasure on there face. The pleasure in hurting and extinguishing a Life!!!
https://youtu.be/0gQYMBALDXc
This is Insane! And then the cop with his hand on his neck is literally smurking while doing so smmfh God don't like ugly! They should have got someone who works in that field to help the guy.May his soul rest in peace and his mother and children get Justice they deserve.
That can happen to anybody thats the scary thing. And cops are giving to much rights to hurt people
Dirty 👮♀️ cops at it agin smh
no surprise here
That's cruel and usual torture, tase a man strapped to a chair wtf plus he called them from help. Lmfao. Told u sheep things won't be fixed unless everyone bands together and fight back with violence like our fore fathers did
These white cops treated him like an animal. And they didn't and don't care if a black man dies I'm custody.
The death penalty for being mentally
challenged and black
And this is the truth about the "new amerikkka"
Pathetic
Wish my family could of done that when my brother died in 1998 in Carmen Prison in Missouri but he was white.
Hope you can play being black.
All the time so
I guarantee you his death was caused by is fix you or suffocation you cannot rub somebody up like that tased them handcuffed them behind their back and sent them in a chair and put a mask over their face that itself causes suffocation and death
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
That whole department needs to be disbanded. Police are out of control
This will never stop til God comes back! Marching hasn’t changed a thing!! Crying hasn’t changed a thing! This is America the most wicked place on earth who continues to shed blood of Poc.
Don't resist, fight it out in court, and you'll live. Simple
Long story short boys and girls. Dont do drugs.
Also, with his mental illness, he would have put medical staff in danger.
Again, don't do drugs.
This is so sad! And people wonder why people of color don't want to call the Police for help. 😏😏
Once again America's best and brightest officers who are not America's best and brightest who just took a college course to become a policeman one course one credit and now they're policemen holding people's lives in their hands and look what they did to this guy. Uneducated keystone cops. 📡👽🇺🇸 RUN!!!
What is wrong with this polices
They are legally approved conscienceless demons…
Police jowls are bigger than their necks.