The 15-minute video, edited down from hours of footage and released by the Sampson family’s attorneys, begins with police pulling Sampson over before putting him in the back of a patrol car without being handcuffed. Shortly after, Sampson is shown surreptitiously putting something in his mouth — methamphetamine, according to his family’s attorney, who added that he might have taken the pill so police wouldn’t find it.
At various points over the course of the next two hours as police searched his home and questioned him about where the drugs were, Sampson is shown barely able to stand, speaking unintelligibly, struggling to breathe, moaning and drenched in sweat, though he’s outside in December and complaining of the cold.
Upon seeing Sampson, his distressed family members ask officers to help him, saying he was clearly sick. One of them called 911.
Soon after, an officer calls the 911 dispatcher and tells her to ignore any calls from the address.
“The guy we’re out with right now is putting on somewhat of a show,” the officer says. “If we need it, we’ll advise.”
Two hours later, Sampson was pronounced dead at a hospital. He was taken there by a police officer who ignored instructions to take Sampson to jail for booking on a charge of violating his probation by possessing a shotgun, according to the Sampson family’s attorney, Christopher Morris.
The video shows the moment when a doctor tells Sampson’s wife that her husband had died — his heart had stopped by the time he arrived.
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