someone died in police custody. cases like that should be brought to immediate attention because you have families and friends and co-workers who are concerned and want to know. it holds a person s life and you can t really do too much, think or even concentrate knowing that you re waiting for someone to press the button and say okay, i m finished and that s not right and fair. mr. lambert, your family was given these videos after one of your daughters filed a civil suit this summer. at what point did your family feel like you weren t being told the truth or weren t being given information? point did you feel something was wrong? anderson, i think we started thinking something was wrong in the beginning. the day he died, we didn t even know it until the day after he died and that was about, excuse
his family saw that for the first time a couple weeks ago. joining me is his family. mr. lambert, you ve been pushing the prosecutor for answers from the day your son died. when you hear her say she s leaving no stone urn tunturned, goes through your mind? do you believe her? no, i do not. if you look at the tapes and you could see clearly that she, if she saw these tapes, she would have come to a conclusion much quicker than what she has. adrian, the prosecutor says she wants to reach a correct decision in a way that inspires confidence to the extent it s possible. do you have confidence in this investigation? no, i do not. what about it doesn t give you confidence? it s over two and a half years, and it shouldn t take this long to find out why
still pending more than two years later still in the hands of the prosecutor. we sent gary tuchman to track her down. reporter: acute cocaine intoxication. that s what the coroner who examined linwood lambert killed him after suffering cardiac arrest. not the multiple taser shots he received at the hands of three police officers in south boston, virginia. help me. reporter: could multiple tasering contributed or led to his death? could those officer be held criminally liable? that is under investigation and has been for a long, long time. the virginia state police says it started investigating this case when it happened after a request from the south boston police chief. a spokesman for the state police says the investigation was completed in october 2013, two years and one month ago and the findings were sent to the commonwealth attorney for her review. after 25 months she is still reviewing. she is tracy quackenbush-martin,
well, i do believe that it is a complex matter. i do believe that it is a weighty matter. i appreciate your concerns. telling you why it has taken as long as it is is something that i m happy to talk about at the conclusion of the case but doing so now would necessarily reveal aspects of the investigation that are simply improper to talk about right now. reporter: we went to the south boston police station to ask about the three officers still working. hello there, i m gary tuchman with cnn. i wanted to see if we could talk to the chief about the lambert case. we were told the chief did not want to make any comments to us. don t kick your window! reporter: the commonwealth attorney says she doesn t want to say how much longer this investigation will take. she says she is not sweeping this under the rug. i m being professional. i m doing everything that needs to be done for the case. i m leaving no stone left unturned and it s my hope that the people and the press will see tha
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