By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
December 15, 2013
Alameda County, California and the health care provider company for the Alameda County Jail have agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a survivor of a prisoner who died after being tasered.
Martin Harrison, 50, of Oakland was a guest of the county on a DUI beef. He was acting like a drunk assbite in custody, flooding his cell and busting up a food tray.
When deputies responded they found Harrison hiding behind his mattress, saying that other inmates were trying to kill him. (Maybe they were pissed because he was flooding and acting like an assbite.) When the deputies entered the cell Harrison tried to grab one of their Tasers as they attempted to handcuff him. In response they lit him up, then hauled his happy ass to the infirmary. He croaked two days later.
It was determined that he died due to lack of oxygen caused by a heart attack.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Harrison’s minor child. He also has four adult children, who have separate lawsuits pending.
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