As Georgia investigators released a video showing sheriff's deputies using a stun gun to subdue a handcuffed 400-pound man who died during a struggle at a jail, the man's distraught mother told ABC News, "I want justice for my son," and voiced suspicion over the scenario authorities say led to his death.
The video of Charles Williams, 30, being hit with a stun gun in the back of a parked police cruiser at the Barrow County Detention Center in January was made public this week by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is tasked with determining if the use of force on Williams was a criminal act.
But Williams' mother, Mary Sojka, told ABC News that after watching the video, she believes the force sheriff's deputies used on her 6-foot-4, 400-pound son "was excessive."
"Now, I'm pissed off about the whole thing because of what they did to him," Sojka said in an emotional phone interview on Wednesday. "Now, I'm angry because I don't want this to happen to any other mother."
Williams death occurred on Jan. 27 after he was arrested in Auburn, Georgia, on suspicion of battery on a woman and cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.
The probe determined that Williams was arrested without incident, handcuffed with his hands behind his back and placed in the rear of a police car.
During the 10-minute ride to the Barrow County Detention Center in nearby Winder, "Williams became combative as his transport vehicle arrived at the detention center," investigators said in the statement.
Source : abcnews
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