Overview
- Attorneys and relatives held a Wednesday news conference after four body-camera videos were released this week.
- Footage shows the 39-year-old double amputee restrained by three MetroHealth police officers and a county deputy as she said "I can't breathe" 23 times, then cuffed to a bed and later found unresponsive about 13 minutes after.
- The county medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, and independent experts say force during the restraint and poor post-restraint monitoring likely contributed, while the autopsy summary does not identify the sedative injected.
- The released recordings are missing at least the first 30 seconds of the critical clip and leave a roughly 14-minute interval unexplained, a discrepancy county officials did not address.
- Special prosecutor Brian Kraft is reviewing the case for possible charges, and Sheriff Harold Pretel has refused to transfer the investigation to an outside agency.