DALLAS (1080 KRLD) - Newly released video shows a Burleson County inmate, who wound up on life support, being thrown into the back of a jail cell
30-year-old Chester Jackson Jr was arrested outside of his Bryan, College station area home April 19th for being drunk. His attorney UA Lewis says his Jackson's mother told the officer Jackson wasn't intoxicated but mentally ill.
Video shot the next evening shows an officer push Jackson who then hits hits his head on a wall and toilet...Jackson's attorney UA Lewis says "Chester goes on to say 'did you guys see that?' He's speaking to the other officers who were watching. 'He threw me.' And the officer responded by saying 'I didn't throw you.' And he spread his hands out and said 'you fell.'
She says the video shows "A clear cut constitutional violation of the fourth amendment. This is a use of excessive force that should not have happened to anybody, namely a mentally ill person but specifically someone who is not supposed to be in custody."
She says Jackson's mother went to the jail some 12 hours before the video was shot, expecting to pick up her son and was told he could not be released, nor could she visit him because he was having a mental health episode.
On April 21st, Jackson was taken to an Austin psychiatric facility and later that day rushed to a hospital in cardiac arrest. Lewis says there were taser marks on his body, and that he was on life support. She says he is no longer on a ventilator but cannot speak
A Caldwell police officer has been put on administrative leave, but it isn't known if that officer is seen in the video.
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