A father sat handcuffed to a police station bench as his daughter died.
When Kevin Russell of Joplin, Missouri, found his 16-year old daughter Brooke had shot herself in the head but was still alive, he called for EMS, but when the EMT workers turned their backs on the girl and she fell off the gurney, Russell started screaming at them, which led them to pepper spray him and arrest him.
The Daily Mail reports that next he noticed his son Brant on the ground, having been pepper sprayed by one of the EMTs: ’I was on the pavement, I couldn’t breathe and another officer put a knee in my back and told me to get up and he said if I didn’t get up he was going to tase me,” explained the boy whose military deployment is postponed because he is still facing misdemeanor charges stemming from the incident.
Russell was also pepper sprayed and arrested.
When the father was finally released he discovered he was too late to see his daughter alive — she had died during the 3 1/2 hours he was handcuffed to a bench at the police station.
The police have refused to drop the charges.