Electing Liberals/Hiring Black Cops Has Had No Effect on the Police Destruction of Black Lives: Jackson Cops Put So Much Pressure on Keith Murriel’s Back, his entire body folded. Cops Charged w/Murder
/From [HERE] and [HERE] A Mississippi grand jury indicted three police officers earlier this month in connection with the death of Keith Murriel, the Black man who died after he was pinned down and repeatedly shocked with stun guns by officers who were arresting him on New Year’s Eve.
Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens made the announcement this week, charging Kenya McCarty and Avery Willis with second-degree murder, and James Land with manslaughter, according to the Associated Press, CBS News and WLBT.
Land and McCarty have both been released from custody, on a $75,000 bond and a $150,000 bond, respectively, according to WJTV. Jones reportedly told the news station on Wednesday that Wills had not yet been arrested, nor had his bond been set.
Jackson City officials also released extensive body-camera footage of the incident.
Murriel, 41, died in police custody on Dec. 31, 2022, after the members of the Jackson Police Department arrested him for allegedly trespassing at a hotel, CBS News reports. Former Chief of police James Davis initially said Murriel had a “medical emergency” and died on the scene. Clearly, Davis blatantly lied and is a liar.
However, Murriel family attorney Daryl K. Washington asked for the body-camera footage to be shared because he knew it would not fit that narrative.
The now-released body-camera footage shows authorities tasing Murriel numerous times as they attempted to handcuff him. Once he was in the police vehicle, but his legs were not, they tased him again. During the footage, Murriel is heard telling the officers to stop.
Washington says the police tased Murriel 80 times.
In the video the police are heard reciting cop-mantras, such as “stop resisting” or “stop kicking” but during the entire video it is obvious Muriel is lethargic and non-combative.
The body-camera footage shows that Murriel was then left in the back of the vehicle for a length of time, the Associated Press reports. When an ambulance arrived, he was no longer breathing. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Willis' body camera footage showed him talking to another officer after the encounter.
"I hope (he) is asleep. Because if he's asleep, it'll be a good ride," Willis said, using a racial slur to refer to Murriel. "It was funny seeing (his) feet in the air." [MORE]
“The amount of force that was used on that night was totally unnecessary,” Washington told WAPT-16. “And the sad thing about this is that Keith died a slow and painful death.”
"The officers put so much pressure on his back and his entire body folded over," Washington said. "Just the pressure and the force they were using on Keith was totally unnecessary."
"The video shows one officer giving instruction to her fellow officers to continuously Tase Keith. Tase a man who was not trying to harm anyone. Taser a man who's on the ground with three officers on top of him," Washington said.
In radio traffic from Broadcastify, a dispatcher is heard questioning the officers about why they were deploying a Taser Murriel without calling paramedics. [MORE]
WLBT reports that Murriel's cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia with the manner being homicide.
Francis Springer, an attorney for McCarty told the Associated Press that her client plans to plead not guilty.
“Ms. McCarty doesn’t believe she is guilty of the crime for which she is indicted or of any other crime," Springer said in the emailed statement, the outlet reports. "She will enter a not-guilty plea,”