A lawsuit alleges a mentally ill man froze to death at an Alabama jail, arriving at a hospital emergency room with a body temperature of 72 degrees.
jail, according to a lawsuit filed by the man's family, who said he was kept naked in a concrete cell and believe he was also placed in a freezer or other frigid environment.
"It is clear that Tony’s death was wrongful, the result of horrific, malicious abuse and mountains of deliberate indifference."Mitchell, who had a history of drug addiction, was arrested Jan. 12 after a cousin asked authorities to do a welfare check on him because he was rambling about portals to heaven and hell in his home and appeared to be suffering a mental breakdown.
The lawsuit also accuses the sheriff’s office of a cover-up. The sheriff’s office issued a statement after the death saying Mitchell "was alert and conscious when he left the facility."by lawyers for Mitchell’s mother shows officers carrying Mitchell’s limp body to a transport car, then putting him on the ground before placing him in the car.Lawyers representing the Walker County Sheriff's Office said it could not comment before the conclusion of a requested investigation.
According to the lawsuit, a doctor wrote in emergency room notes that Mitchell was "unresponsive apneic and pulseless and cold to the touch" when he arrived.
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