how would that interfere with a person that s ingested cocaine? well, that would not have any direct effect either to increase or to decrease the amount of cocaine. the relevance of the tasering in excess of 20 times for a cumulative amount of 87 seconds as you say, we don t know for sure whether every one connected but i see no reason why they would not have, they were in close proximity to mr. lambert and it was their intention to tase him, no reason to believe they did not connect, so say they cut it in half. fine. the point is that the taser company itself, the federal guidelines, the international association of police chiefs and every large metropolitan and other police departments have voiced their strong opposition, concerns and guidelines with regard to the utilization of
register. there is nothing compassionate about a bunch of politicians saying i m so compassionate, i m going to give away your job. reporter: cuban-american ted cruz quick to charge that his gop rivals are supporting what he believes will be amnesty. if we just agree with barack obama and hillary clinton on amnesty, republicans will lose. now, i asked bush last night, if he felt that most republican primary voters agreed with him on immigration, he said, yes. pointing to the applause he got on debate night when he challenged trump s deportation plan. alisyn. now to a disturbing story out of san francisco, where police shot and killed an armed man who had climbed on top of an elevator at a construction site. and he was aiming his rifle at a nearly hospital. they say the gunman had just stolen the weapon from a sporting goods store. officers shot the suspect when he turned the rifle on them. no one on the ground was
we have. we assume we have. the police reports related to the police officers who were there that night, we did. and what is the clearest narrative that you see in the police reports that explains what they did? well, the police reports do mimic what s contained on the videotape, but it doesn t show they don t summarize, i think, the graphic nature of the video. it doesn t reveal mr. lambert begging for them not to tase him. it doesn t mention the fact that he s struggling for breath and he s having difficulty, he s prespiring profusely in the back of the car and he was confined in the back of that car and he wasn t responding to their commands so they tased him again. that, i think, is some of the details that we can get from the video is not really shown contained in their reports.
tonight, newly released video, the minutes leading to the death of a virginia man. it shows the officers tazing him over and over in front of a hospital where they took him for medical help. he never made it inside. instead the officers fired their tasers repeatedly while in handcuffs. it happened two years ago. no charges filed against the officers. the videos coming to light as a result of a wrongful death lawsuit. reporter: 46-year-old linwood lambert was acting strange when boston police decided to get him checked out at a local emergency room. we re not locking you up. what we re doing here is we re going to take you to the emergency room, going to get you looked at and make sure you re good to go. reporter: during the ride police shows lambert becomes increasingly agitated and as the squad car pulls into the e.r.
while hand cuffed. falls to the ground and officers ask him to roll over on his stomach as they tase him. lambert admits he was on drugs. i just took cocaine. reporter: instead of taking him inside the emergency room, he was taken to the police station. the officers tase lambert multiple times. he is bleeding apparently from breaking the squad car window. by the time he appears at the police station, he was unconscious in the backseat. he went into cardiac arrest according to the medical examiner s report. the family blames the police and they filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit alleging, the officers callus disregard and tasering him multiple times and depriving him of the medical care he needed violated his rights to be free from cruel and