Rack up another in custody death for Dallas Police and Dallas Fire Rescue responders.
This time the victim was LaDamonyon Dewayne Hall and it comes as the Supreme Court says a lawsuit can proceed against the City of Dallas in the death of Tony Timpa, by Officer Dustin Dillard.
LaDamonyon Dewayne Hall Situation
In late May, forty-seven year old Hall died after she was handcuffed and restrained by Dallas police officers and Dallas Fire-Rescue officials in East Dallas.
LaDamonyon Hall’s autoposy is pending, but in video released by Dallas police it shows responders pinning LaDamonyon Hall similar to the Timpa case.
Police officers responded to a 911 call for a disturbance near a car lot.
Hall can be seen in the video in various levels of responsiveness – sometimes answering officer questions, sometimes answering unintelligibly.
Per police, Hall became agitated, stood up, yelled at the first responders, and started removing her clothes.
Officers pinned her to the ground where she continued to “thrash about and scream” per Deputy Chief Terrence Rhodes, but Hall can be heard saying “you’re hurting me.”
She was put on a stretcher and into an ambulance. On the way to the hospital, Hall “became quiet and started to lose vital signs,” Rhodes said.
She is handcuffed and a hood is placed over her face. She appears unresponsive just before arriving at the hospital.
Dallas police have a General Order stating that video in these cases must be released within seventy-two hours, but police leadership waited nearly two weeks to do so.
Hall was transported to Baylor University Medical Center unconscious, unresponsive, and in cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead at 2:05PM.
LaDamonyon Dewayne Hall Video
Video of the interaction can be seen here:
Dallas police are investigating the incident, but in numerous previous incidents, police are always cleared of charges despite starting an incident with a person breathing on their own and ending up dead.
Dallas Fire Rescue officials say they are also looking into the incident.
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