poor fella
Officers hogtied mentally ill man and beat him in NC jail before he died, lawsuit says
Officers in a North Carolina jail beat, kicked and hogtied a mentally ill man before he had a heart attack and died, the family says in a federal lawsuit.
Police arrested Graydon Jerome Parker III, then 54, after he broke a truck window and told authorities “he did it ‘because God told me to,’” according to the lawsuit filed by Parker’s mother this week.
The man “was in an acute manic state and experiencing a psychiatric emergency” when he got to the jail May 20, 2017, the lawsuit says, but jailers in the Wayne County Detention Center in Goldsboro, North Carolina did not call for a psychological evaluation.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article230261094.html