him. they use less than lethal force, but there has to be standards where it says if this doesn t work this many times, you have to move to the next less than lethal. at that point he was at the hospital. he should have been put on a gurney because most police department s stipulate if someone has done a drug and they tell you which he did on the ground. or saying they have an illness or their heart or breathing problem, you take them to the hospital before you take them to jail. that s the breakdown. that s unissue. the second is you have the family. let me play some of the sound from the family attorney. they are saying it was the medical examiner who ruled this acute cocaine intoxication. they are blaming police. here s the attorney. it s intentional. there s no accident here. it wasn t accidental that they tased mr. lambert the first time or the second time or the third
we gonna take you to the emergency room and gonna get you looked at make sure you good to go. inside the patrol car, police say he kicked out the window. then the video shows lambert running straight into the hospital doors while hand cuffed. he falls to the ground and the officers repeatedly ask him to roll over on to his stomach while threatening to tase him. on your stomachish lambert then admits he was on drugs. i just did cocaine. but instead of taking him inside the emergency room the officers take him to the police station. the officers tase lambert multiple times. hooegs bleeding apparently from breaking the squad car window. by the time they really reach the police station lambert seems unconscious in the backseat. he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. the report ruled the cause of death as acute cocaine intoxication. but the family blames police and
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
taking the 46-year-old father inside, they took him into custody. you can hear one of the officers laugh. lamb ber died later that night. this was in 2013. his autopsy indicates it was an accidental drug overdose. acute cocaine intoxication, but the family just obtaining new information blames police and is now filing suit. a hearing in federal court is set for today. our correspondent pamela brown takes us through the final moments of lambert s life. reporter: this police video shows three officers in south boston, virginia, tasing a a man outside a hospital emergency room. shortly after, that man died in police custody.
the officers tase lambert multiple times. he s bleeding apparently from breaking the window. by the time they reach the police station, lambert appears unconscious in the backseat. he was later pronounced dead at the hospital after going into cardiac arrest. the report ruled the cause of death as cocaine intoxication, but the family blames police and filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit alleging, quote, the officer s callous disregard for lambert in tasering him multiple times and depriving him of the medical care he needed violated his constitutional rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. they denied allegations saying erratic actions required the use of force. pamela brown, cnn, washington. we want to get to the police side of things. they released a statement saying, quote, we are vigorously