John 'lj' 'Scott Jr. dragged by the feet in the prison cell before death, video shows

John “LJ” Scott Jr.Death has aroused indignation … with a new video of his arrest seeming to show that the police dragging it through the ground in a police station.

If you don't know … Scott died on April 22, about a week after being arrested by Decatur in Alabama police on April 15 – with cops saying that he had undergone a medical emergency and died in the hospital.

Police would have arrived in an apartments complex on April 15, where they say they found Scott “strongly sweating and with erratic behavior”.

The police responded to a call to Scott's mother's 911, who reported that he was suffering a “mental health crisis”, ” According to NBC News. The images of body cam show that the cops try to be without success to coaxice Scott in an ambulance before saying that he became “combative” … leading to his arrest.

The images show that the police finally fight him on the ground – with the help of a taser – and transport him to prison … where the video of the interior of the station seems to show Scott lying on the ground, surrounded by cops.

It is difficult to see it … but you can see what looks like his blue shirt through cracks in the assembled crowd – and, it seems that it is dragged on the ground and out of the frame.

The lawyer for the Scott family, lawyer for civil rights S. Lee MerrittSaid a short time after taking this video, Scott had a medical emergency and was transported urgently to the hospital, where he finally passed.

We are told that the family believes that LJ did not resist the cops, but they did not answer – and maybe even unconscious – and desperately needed medical care.

Instead of helping him, said Merritt, cops dragged her with his feet in a prison cell and left him without any medical care. He adds that it was a “violation of LJ constitutional and human rights” … and, it requires responsibility.

It should be noted that DPD recognizes that “the medical and mental health difficulties aggravated by a psychosis suspected of drugs” played a factor in the events that occurred … While his family maintained the problem was purely an episode of mental health and say that the cops should have managed the situation differently.

Decatur police chief Nadis E. Carlisle Originally, Scott was “placed in a cell by the staff of Morgan County prison after some difficulties, due to his size and passive resistance”. We do not know what they hear by “passive resistance”.