one by one, ten people on top of him. all of whom are applying pressure. visibly, they re putting their back into it, leaning down. reporter: is he resistant, is it combatant at all? no, not at all. he s lifeless. reporter: there s other details. hospital staff coming in and out of the room as if there s nothing taking place. nothing. no one tries to help. reporter: it began with a burglary call on march 3rd police showed up at otieno assess house. he was very confused. heightened state of mental anxiety. reporter: but his mother calmed him down but another posed a threat. iirvo. reporter: and in jail, video shows he was pepper strayed
reporter: new details of the video not yet public, but the county prosecutor in southern virginia telling cnn why she has charged seven henrico deputies with murder as well as three security guards at the central state hospital. he goes to the ground. one by one there end up being ten people on top of him, all of whom are applying pressure visibly, putting their back into it, leaning down. is he resistant? not at all. he s not moving. he s lifeless. reporter: another disturbing detail. there are hospital staff that come in and out of the room as if there s nothing taking place, nothing. no one tries to help. reporter: it began with a burglary call. on march 3rd, police showed up at his house with what a neighbor says was a disproportionate amount of officers. he was agitated and confused.
people on top of him. all of whom are applying pressure. visibly, they re putting their back into it, leaning down. reporter: is he resisting at all in those moments? no. not at all. he s not moving. he is lifeless. there are hospital staff that come in and out of the room as if there s nothing taking place. nothing. no one tries to help. reporter: it began with a burglary call. on march 3rd, police showed up at his house with what a neighbor says was a disproportionate amount of officers. he was very agitated, confused. a heightened state of mental sensibility and everything. reporter: his mother calmed him down, this neighbor says, and he never posed a threat to the officers. he wasn t treated like someone going through a mental health crisis. he was treated like a reporter: in jail the prosecutor said he was pepper sprayed while handcuffed and
on march 3 after police say that they responded to a burglary call next door to his home and took him to the hospital for evaluation where he became, quote, physically assaultive. his mother said she pleaded with police. took him off treatment, took him to jail, didn t take him with any medicine. reporter: after a weekend in jail where video shows he was pepper sprayed, punched and mistreated, he was brought to the central state mental facility on march 6 where authorities allege he became combative. in the videos, he was never confrontational with them. he is not posing a threat to them. he is not violent or aggressive with them. reporter: in court this week, an early xwlimsglimpse of the potential defense. the ongoing issues that they had been having with this
atati atie otieno died after being restrained for several minutes. the knee on his neck. the weight of seven individuals on his body. wheel he s facedown, handcuffed, with leg irons. reporter: otieno was arrested on march 3rd, when police say they responded to a burglary call next to his home. his mother says she pleaded with the police. they pulled him off treatment. took him to jail. didn t take him down with any medicine. reporter: after a weekend in jail, where prosecutors show otieno was pepper sprayed, punched and mistreated, he was brought to the facility on march 6th. he is not posing a threat to them.