Video showed Gershun Freeman being beaten by multiple deputies in the Shelby County jail. His death was ruled a homicide.
Nine Memphis jail deputies have been indicted in the death of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode and died in custody last fall after jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on his back during a confrontation, a sheriff said Wednesday.
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner walks away after a news conference about the indictments of nine jail deputies in connection with the death of inmate Gershun Freeman in Memphis, Tennessee. Sept. 20, 2023.Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk released video in March of Freeman at the Shelby County Jail.
Freeman's manner of death is listed as a homicide in the autopsy report from the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center, although the report says that this"is not meant to definitively indicate criminal intent." Freeman had been booked in jail Oct. 1 on charges of attacking and kidnapping his girlfriend, according to court records.
He appears limp when officers do lift him up, with his head falling forward between his knees and his hands cuffed behind his back. He remains in that position until medical employees arrive, and the video ends.
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