Jail staff mocked a sick man as he begged for help. Days later, he was dead

From an isolation cell in the Ottawa County Jail, Terral Ellis begged for someone to help him. He could not feel his legs and he could not breathe, the 26-year-old told jail staff and the on-site nurse at the Miami, Oklahoma, facility. It felt, he said, like his back was broken and he was bleeding internally. "I think I'm dying," he said just after 10 a.m. on Oct. 22, 2015. Staff mocked him, laughed at a joke about the "boy who cried wolf," and ignored him as he moaned. When nurse Theresa Horn arrived later that morning, she did not help either - instead threatening to chain Ellis to the ground if he continued to complain. "I'm sick and tired of f---ing dealing with your ass!" she yelled. "Ain't a damn thing nothing wrong with you!" Hours later, Ellis was dead. Video surveillance footage of Ellis's 12 days in jail in 2015 became public for the first time last week as part of an ongoing federal lawsuit. The 18 clips taken from 16 cameras - which were edited down from the hundreds of hours of footage given to the Ellis family's lawyers - show how jail staff repeatedly mocked Ellis and refused him adequate medical treatment. On Oct. 10, 2015, Ellis took the advice of his grandfather and turned himself into the county jail on an outstanding warrant for an old DUI. On Oct. 22, he was rolled out on a paramedic's stretcher - cold and unresponsive from septic shock brought on by pneumonia, a medical examiner later ruled.

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