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Disturbing bodycam footage shows cops high-fiving after Tasering a handcuffed psychotic man to death
Man suffers episode while high on synthetic marijuana and is shocked 15 times by police
CALLOUS cops have been caught on camera high-fiving moments after they had Tasered a helpless man to death.
Chase Sherman, 32, was Tasered 15 times in the back of his family’s rental car in Georgia.
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The man was having a psychotic episode after taking synthetic marijuana, according to his family.
Shocking footage captured on a body cam shows Sherman handcuffed in the back of the car.
He kicks up against the back of the seat and tries to move as police wrestle him to the ground.
Terrified family members watch from the front seat as the man is Tasered for the first time.
The clip jumps to Sherman being shocked again by an officer in a hi vis tabard.
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Another cop beats Sherman several times when the psychotic man tried to steal the officer’s Taser.
While the police officer stops to shout at Sherman’s family, the drugged-up man manages to pull a Taser away.
He is shocked again until he lands on the car floor and doesn’t get up.
The police officers continue to shock him, pressing him face down onto the car floor.
They repeatedly shout “stop resisting”.
After a few minutes, the police officers realise that Sherman has stopped moving.
The officers try to revive him and shout “say something” to try and get him up.
When they realise that he’s dead, one of the cops says: “Dude, I’m f***ing fired, man.”
But the other officer says: “Naw, you’re good.”
In the most shocking moment of the clip, the bodycam footage shows two of the police officers high fiving after Sherman is loaded onto an ambulance.
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Sherman’s family has fought to release the chilling footage in order to provide evidence to charge the police officers.
They are planning to sue the Coweta County Sherrif’s Office and the paramedics.
The family attorney L Chris Stewart said: “You actually see a man get tortured to death for four minutes.
“It’s absolutely horrific. It’s probably one of the most interesting case studies in how officers react in situations like this.”
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The family were driving from Atlanta, Georgia to their home in Destin, Florida.
They were on their way home from Sherman’s brother’s wedding in the Dominican Republic.
He started behaving oddly in the car and kept trying to jump out of the moving car.
His family said that he had taken the synthetic marijuana days ago.
On his death certificate, his passing was ruled as a homicide.
The document said he died “during an altercation with law enforcement with several trigger pulls of an electronic control device,” and “compression of the torso by the body weight of another individual.”
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