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Category: Mental Health

Posted inCriminal Justice

Previously Withheld Video Shows Man’s Fatal Struggle With Pottawatomie County Jailers

by Whitney Bryen January 29, 2023January 30, 2023

Newly released video shows county detention officers twice slamming Ronald Gene Given — arrested days earlier in the midst of a mental health crisis — to the concrete floor, kneeling on his upper body and dragging the unconscious man by the ankles across a cell.

Posted inMental Health

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by Kathryn Hurd, Ellie Lightfoot and Whitney Bryen August 15, 2022August 16, 2022
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by Ashlynd Huffman August 2, 2022July 29, 2022
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