McHENRY, Ill. – Vernon L. Brooks Jr. was distraught. Forced into a chair in a jail cell with a black mesh hood over his head, he panicked as he felt officers tighten straps like tourniquets around his ...

“A restraint chair is only for the very acute situation. And if you have to restrain someone because there’s violence that cannot be contained any other way, you put them in a restraint chair for a ...

SOLVING PROBLEMS. GETTING RESULTS. HOLDING THE POWERFUL ACCOUNTABLE. KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES A KANSAS CITY FAMILY WANTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO A RECENT DEATH BEHIND ...

ACCOUNTABLE. KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES. TONIGHT WE HAVE AN UPDATE TO OUR NATIONWIDE RESTRAINED INVESTIGATION. FAMILY MEMBERS CONTINUE TO GRIEVE AFTER THE DEATH OF A 74 YEAR OLD MAN WHO SPENT MORE THAN ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Five prison guards have been charged in the December death of a Black man who was pepper sprayed, had his face covered with a mask and was left in a position that caused him to suffocate ...

A screenshot from a video of officers at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., holding an incarcerated person in a four-point restraint. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois) One ...

Three men involved in the restraint chair case that landed former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill in a federal prison have filed civil lawsuits against the ex-lawman. Raheem Peterkin, Walter Thomas ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Othel Moore Jr. could barely move his body in his final moments. Newly released video shows the 38-year-old Missouri inmate was strapped into a full-body restraint ...

Former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill must face an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee whose placement in a restraint chair led in part to Hill’s criminal conviction and prison ...

GEORGIA, USA — Attorneys for a man who spent time in the restraint chair under the order of embattled ex-Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill have filed a new lawsuit. It comes after Hill was recently ...