To continue the ongoing story, the 21-year-old inmate with bipolar disorder had been tased three times in a row while sitting in a restraint chair with a spit mask over his head. Afterward, a deputy said that the inmate’s skin had become hot to the touch.

One of the deputies in the jail summoned a nurse who had only been on the job for about a week. It was a few minutes before midnight. Records indicate that the nurse stayed inside the cell with the inmate for 51 seconds before exiting.

The nurse later explained that he was not trained on how to check an inmate’s blood pressure while strapped into a restraint chair. No assessment was made of the inmate’s blood pressure, pulse, airway, or respiration. The nurse later said that he was unaware that the inmate had been stunned with an electronic weapon or that he had been kicked or punched.

Another 100 minutes passed with no one checking on the inmate. At 1:30 am, a senior jailer looked into the cell and reported that the inmate was dead.

Learn more about this story, including more details about the events that took place at the out-of-state jail after the arrest of the inmate with bipolar disorder, in Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

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