Associated Press
LILLINGTON, N.C. — A video released to a North Carolina newspaper shows a jail inmate had been shocked three times with a stun gun before he died.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported the video it obtained this spring shows 24-year-old Brandon Bethea backing away from a Harnett County jail officer with a stun gun in a padded cell in 2011.
Jail officers said Bethea had threatened them. He was being held on charges of rape, illegally weapons possession and armed robbery.
The video shows an officer fired three times and Bethea was left alone for about 20 minutes. He could not be revived.
The county settled a lawsuit by the family.
No one was charged. The district attorney said he didn’t think he could get an indictment.
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