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| Video raises questions about inmate’s death at West Baton Rouge Parish jail |
| By theadvocate.com- Ben Wallace |
| Published: 04/20/2015 |
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The final moments of Ervin Leon Edwards’ life were spent facedown on the floor of the West Baton Rouge Parish Jail. Dragged into an isolation cell and surrounded by about half a dozen law enforcement officers, Edwards sometimes struggled with them. At other times, he appears to lay still, according to recently obtained video footage of the incident. At one point, while Edwards apparently resisted attempts by officers to restrain him, a Port Allen police officer shocked Edwards with a stun gun. Not long afterward, the inmate quit moving, the footage shows. The officers then slowly backed away from him and exited the cell. Except for a few peeks through a window of the cell’s door, about 10 minutes go by on the video before deputies and officers return to the cell to check on him. Edwards, lying still on his stomach, doesn’t appear to move at all during that time frame. For corrections and use of force experts who reviewed the video footage, that 10-minute gap without checking on Edwards looks like a critical error. Read More. |
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