and I he was doing good so I said I'm gonna stay home I'm gonna stay with you hey you're going to the hospital all right this body cam footage just released shows a 26-year-old man who suffered a seizure at his home his grandmother called 911 the police showed up instead of medical treatment he ended up in handcuffs on the ground they began injecting him with sedatives guys please guys guys I'm going to die no no go you want the yes okay yeah watch out everybody hold on please he's going to sleep now take a nap take a nap take a nap you got to do it you're going to feel so much better here in a second hopefully you guys actually have him hooked up to vitals earlier to vitals I he's got a pulse p is definitely up there he's still breathing yeah I'm thinking moread of me I'm on I would give more Med you give a medication or something oh yeah he's got a lot of medication T stives SL down they laid him prone down on the floor with a pillow on his face handcuffed as they laughed and joked yeser good can you still hear me rer little bit I think he's fine apparently that was not a good idea because the next thing you know he did not have a pulse he looks blue she okay hold on let's get that BVM let's get we're getting there he did not survive the sheriff released all the body cam footage and says that his deputies did nothing wrong the family thinks otherwise and his lawyered up who's right let's go through it body cam footage was just released this past Friday showing officers in Jasper County Indiana handcuffing and restraining this man who later died after he was having a seizure this is in Northwest Indiana the man's name was rker Earl he was only 26 years old and he suffered a seizure on the night of Sunday September 8th at his home in deont Indiana which is about an hour and 15 minutes south and east of Chicago after Earl's family and civil rights attorneys had been asking to see the video The Jasper County Sheriff's Office released it this is what happened on the evening of September 8th Mr Earl's grandmother called 911 for help and Jasper County Sheriff's officers arrived at the home after they enter the house Earl's grandmother can be heard telling the deputies that her grandson had been suffering from seizures door the door okay okay okay okay all right holy all right right that's shirt guys you're about to fall you leave me the rker sit down leave me the alone wait okay Jesus Christ they're waiting for you H okay you got you got them backwards go the other way sit make it easy yeah here's your T-shirt here's your T-shirt bud what's the issue he has epileptic seizures he had he had three of them and when we were in we field I don't know if you were there I don't think so what what time did it happen um during the day yeah okay I wouldn't have been there then so it say maybe about 5:00 okay was some on when Mr Earl walks into a bedroom a deputy is then heard yelling at Earl he says don't effing touch the Medics you're going to the hospital all right don't effing hit them you understand don't effing hit them the family's account of what happened was that while Earl was still recovering from the seizure he was confused and agitated and just accidentally fell into the officer and I he was doing good so I said I'm going to stay home I'm going to stay with you hey don't touch the medic you're going to the hospital all right don't hit him you don't hit him you understand you don't hit him you don't touch him get on the ground put your hands behind your back hands behind your back now now it wasn't okay your hand behind your back you don't touch the Medics like that you don't touch me like that later in the video Earl can be seen in handcuffs fa down on the kitchen floor being pinned into place by multiple deputies and Medics Mr Earl shrieks repeatedly guys please and also says more than once I'm going to die one of the First Responders is also seen injecting Earl with some substance twice house arm guys why are you doing this care why are you doing this guys please please guys right here what's he doing you want to maybe call for another dose though what you give so far I a whole V get the hold on hold hold let him grab we got this arm guys pleas guys you got to get behind his back hold on stop resist sir please sir please sir pleasey please please we're not we're not to hurt you okay please guys now never he's got it got it he's coming please got it please please guys please guys guys guys I'm going to die no guys guys St thatting them hopefully this should be chilling them out here in a the sheriff's office said that Earl can be seen in the video banging his own head on the floor at which time the deputies placed a a pillow under his head to prevent him from injuring himself the sheriff said the officers deliberately placed Earl in a position that would not restrict his breathing you're going to be all right second SLE down settle down hold hold all right I got to sne pretty yeah yeah cuz he's yeah he's going to wiggle right off take oh no not taser again all right reer he going to sleep just stay still just stay still you want yes okay yeah please know what round two dude we did this last night really Y how we feel all right I don't get how the medic themselves czy yeah I love the cops side came to this he was raging out in his room so I like just going to close the door on him just trap him in there till listen relax I'm right here they're trying to help you not hurt you okay just yeah just breathe they're trying to help they P something else out yeah we can probably deal with a few less firefighters if you need to go we got three of us here yeah iighter are I aisher and we're might need to get that uh Hotel evacuated yeah be see where those meds are all I was doing run around rker good can you still hear me rker a little bit can you still hear me a little bit you feeling a little better I think he's fine he's yeah I don't just settle down settle down just huh at all yeah uh yeah the I'm going to give him another like minute he's still if he's I would just hey Drew you got that another 100 Drew take a nap take a nap you got to do it a lot everything else on board s very cop so I didn't have to wrestle people no more yeah I know right damn settle down right here all right you're going to feel so much better here in a second hopefully you guys actually have them hooked up to vitals earlier to vitals no he like ripped them right oh I was going to say I'm like I'd be shocked we tried we tried but he was get he was going around raging back the brother yeah that's all right he's still fighting was urised that you had it I was like blood pressure we do know that he's got a pulse pulse is definitely up there he's still breathing yeah I'm thinking moread of me we are trying on this guy I'm going we are trying to help your grandpa's right here he's trying talking can you talk to your grandpa hey hey hey can you get off of me please relax Ryder the more you relax is that a00 200 buddy buddy we'll get off of you as soon as you calm down okay we want to get off of you but we can't I I would get more mad yeah it's not going to work start kicking we're going to drop him he's going to kick someone in the face all right I think he's out all yeah he's moving all right did you give a medication or something oh yeah he's got a lot of medication T sedatives SL down he looks blue they're getting to it 13 myself and fire about two minutes out she okay hold on1 you're requesting for quarters and what was the other thing no problem what do you need hey Drew I got your radio clear this is the spot where you can see that there's clearly no movement from Mr Earl and eventually they realize he's not moving and he begins to look blue that's when they say he looks blue let's take his pulse and they find no pulse let's that BM let's get we're getting there no Mr Earl was then taken to the hospital but tests confirmed that he had no brain activity he was eventually removed from life support on September 10th the Sheriff's Office statement two days later made no mention of Mr Earl's death it just read that the officers responded to a medical 911 call from a residence and then on September 10th the office was informed that the patient had passed away not surprisingly they have been completely ratioed in the comments to this Facebook post the family has hired nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Indiana attorney Steven Wagner Trump said in a statement rker Earl's death should never have happened his family called for medical help but instead they watched in horror has Law Enforcement escalated the situation and used excessive force the dangers of prone restraint have been known for years to law enforcement everybody in the public has known about them since the George Floyd case in May 2020 but it was even worse here because rer was at risk for so many reasons he had just had a seizure he was a large man he was handcuffed behind his back face down they knew that he had asthma his face was in a pillow and on top of all that they gave him three rounds of sedatives that's according to his attorney Stephen Wagner the corner has not yet released Mr Earl's cause of death the Indiana State Police are now investigating the Jasper County Indiana Sheriff's Office told the media that it had no comment even before Mr Earl was brought outside when they put his body on the board and all carried him outside the officer the first officer involved Deputy number one sort of gets his story straight with one of the other deputies and this is his recount to the other Deputy of what he says happened at the very beginning when Mr Earl was taken into custody my nose hurts my wrist hurts yeah so he like swinging like not like trying to punch but just swinging the Medics H so I I press him on the door and then he to go hands on that's what right before I got down there watching throw all you m are oh they're both Le locks you got initial no I said it I'm missing a pair but is that actually what happened with all of the body cam footage that was released I can only find this one sliver from Deputy number one's body Cam that shows what happens does it show a punch or does it show him swinging does it show him attacking anybody really the only thing I can say for sure is that it shows Mr Earl attempting to turn off the light and then boom he's taken down and we really can't see anything and I he was doing good so I said I'm going to stay home I'm going to stay with you hey don't touch the medic you're going to the hospital all right don't hit him you don't hit him you understand you don't but with what we can hear it very much sounds like things have taken a turn from trying to get him medical help or medical treatment to now treating him like a criminal obviously this one is going to come down to facts that we don't know yet what was the cause of death according to the autopsy that's taking place exactly was Mr Earl injected with and at what dosages did that play a part in the cause of death or was it just that he was restricted from being able to breathe or a combination of the both all we can do right now is speculate on that but the video does show things to me that are troubling one is it does not look like they are taking his medical condition seriously despite having plenty of people there they're not obtaining information from the family about his medical medical condition or what sort of medications he's on until after all of this already goes down and they're very nonchalant about it they're laughing they're joking and they seem very quick to just inject him with these sedatives one of which we do here on the video was ketamine which is obviously a very very powerful sedative if it's called that at one point one of the EMS guys is joking that he's going to run out of Narcotics because they're giving it all to this one individual we trying the whole on this guy I'm the Box on I will put a link to all of the raw footage and there is a lot of it most of it I could not show nor would I have time to it's very sad like I'll warn you but when you watch you can see that one officer you know has his boot on Mr R's back others have their knees on him others are pushing down with their hands the whole time he's handcuffed and then we have the pillow we'll just have to see what the medical experts say about the cause of death but it does not look like they handled that properly having represented somebody before who was an epileptic I had a very very similar scenario in a case you know my conclusion out of the whole thing was that don't call the cops if you have a family member who is having an epileptic seizure because this is how it's going to go down and what is even the point of bringing in the emergency medical personnel if they're just going to bring the cops into the equation what could possibly have happened to him if they just provided no medical treatment here as opposed to what they actually did do once the government or once government officials police officers and it could be EMS Personnel depending on their the way that they're employed once they're aware of some serious medical need such as this then there is an obligation under the Constitution to provide medical treatment adequate medical treatment so this is probably one of those types of cases and also could be a component of excessive force involved just based on what happened in the very beginning as well as the officer statements you can follow me at the blog the civils lawyer.com also obviously subscribe here and you can also follow me on Twitter at John briyan Esq same name the civil rights lawyer our rights don't end where your fear begins freedom is scary deal with it