Reference News Network reported on March 5 According to the Associated Press report on March 3, Tennessee prosecutors released a video this week showing a mentally ill black man who died in prison last fall.
Before that, the Memphis guards punched and kicked him and knelt on his back during the confrontation.
According to media reports, the Nashville District Attorney's Office released a video of 33-year-old Gershun Freeman in the Shelby County Jail in Memphis on the 2nd.
After Freeman ran out of the cell naked, he was beaten by at least 10 prison guards. In the video, the prison guards can be seen stepping on his back and kneeling on his back for several minutes.
When Freeman was lifted, he was already motionless.
The Shelby County Sheriff said in a statement on the 2nd that Freeman "suffered from mental illness and cardiovascular disease and died of a heart attack in prison."
"He was naked and clearly had a mental health crisis," said civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented Freeman's family. He called the death "yet another egregious example of police brutality" in Memphis.
In January, Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by Memphis police, an incident that sparked a backlash in Memphis.
His death led to the firing of multiple officers and charges of second-degree murder.
(Source: Reference News)