‘As Disturbing As George Floyd’s Death’: Family Demands Release of Video Showing ‘Hogtied’ Black Man Beaten and Pepper-Sprayed to Death in Connecticut Prison

The family of a man who said their loved one died after being stripped naked and beaten in a Connecticut prison is demanding the state release footage of the incident to the public. The video shows the moments leading up to the death of 31-year-old J’Allen Jones at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown on March 31, 2018. According to CT Insider, a state Department of Corrections report states that officers were preparing to transfer Jones, who was a diagnosed schizophrenic, to a mental health unit for psychiatric monitoring and support. According to the report, Jones had been acting oddly and had not been taking his medications. A video screenshot shows J’allen Jones being forced back onto a bed at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Connecticut. (Photo: Connecticut Department of Correction) The DOC reviewed a 50-minute video that an officer recorded with a handheld camera showing a restrained Jones with handcuffs behind his back. Jones was calm until he was told he would have to undergo a strip search, the report states, but he protested and said he couldn’t do it before beginning to chant and shout incoherently. A 25-minute portion of the video showed officers push, pepper-spray, knee, and...