form of resisting with putting up their dukes or trying to flee. you don t really use the lethal force here, especially because tasers have been marketed as a less lethal alternative. they re not nonlethal. they re less lethal. and the guidelines, they give us a lot of information, but they as don t give us a lot of information in that because these are lethal alternatives, maybe the general idea is, well, we can pump someone full of these charges and we can do so, because we know that the statistics show they re not likely to die or be long-term seriously injured. and maybe that s an inherent problem when you re using alternatives. here s what the family s attorney had to say. 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 time. or the fourth time.
they filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit alleging quote the officer s callous disregard for linwood lambert in tasering him multiple times and depriving him of the care he needed violated his constitutional rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. the police deneed the allegations saying his actions required the use of force. stating we are vigorously defending the case. reports affirmed in the field. cnn attempted to reach both south boston police as well as virginia state police who picked up this investigation, carol, after lambert s death. we have not heard back and there have been no charges against these police officers since this happened two years ago, carol. all right. pamela brown reporting. thank you. and good morning. i m carol costello.
boston, virginia, tasing a man right outside a hospital emergency room. shortly there after that man, 46-year-old lindberg lambert died. the video shows officers picking him up in 2013 after several 911 calls were made about noise. court records say because of the way lambert was acting they decided to take him to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. they say he made comments about murdering two people and hiding their bodies in a ceiling. we re going to take you to the emergency room and get you looked at and make sure you re good to go. reporter: inside the patrol car, police say he kicked out the window. then the video shows lambert running straight into the hospital doors while handcuffed. get on your belly. reporter: falls to the ground and officers repeatedly ask him to roll over on his stomach while repeatedly threatening to
cnn s pamela brown. reporter: this police video shows three officers in south boston, virginia tasing a man outside the emergency room. shortly after, that man, 46-year-old linwood lambert, died in police custody. the video starts with officers picking lambert up at a motel in may of 2013. after several 911 calls made about noise. in court records, police say because of the way lambert was acting, they decided to take him to the hospital. they said he made comments about murdering two people and hid their bodies in the ceiling. we will take you to the emergency room. reporter: and inside the patrol car, police say he kicked out the window. then the video shows lambert running to the hospital doors
tonight, newly released videos show in graphic details the minutes leading to the death of a virginia man while in police custody. it shows officers tasing him over and over where the officers took him for medical help. he never made it inside, the officers fired repeatedly at him while he was in handcuffs. the videos are only now coming to light as a result of a wrongful death lawsuit. reporter: 46-year-old linwood lambert was allegedly acting strange when south boston, virginia, 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. but during the ride police video shows lambert becomes