In a blood-boiling incident, a mentally-ill man named Anthony Don Mitchell was allegedly frozen to death at an Alabama Jail. Going by the lawsuit filed by Anthony Don Mitchell's family, he was kept naked in a concrete cell and believed he was also placed in a freezer or other frigid environment till he freeze to death. Anthony Mitchell's death in Alabama Jail has sparked a massive uproar on social media with people demanding strict action against the people involved in it. Now, for those who are still wondering what Anthony Mitchell was doing in Alabama jail, here's your answer. Anthony Don Mitchell, 33, arrived at a hospital emergency room with a body temperature of 72 degrees (22 degrees Celsius), and was pronounced dead hours later, according to the lawsuit. He was brought to the hospital on Jan. 26 from the Walker County Jail, where he’d been incarcerated for two weeks. Now, Anthony Mitchell's video has been leaked online and many officers have now come under the scanner of not only social media but also higher authorities.
In the Anthony Mitchell leaked video, it can be seen multiple officers of the Alabama Jail dragged out his dead body. In Anthony Mitchell's leaked video, it can be further seen that the body can be transferred into a Sherrif's van. It is pertinent to mention here that the lawsuit also accuses the sheriff’s office of a cover-up. The sheriff’s office issued a statement after the death saying Mitchell “was alert and conscious when he left the facility.” Jail security footage provided to The Associated Press by lawyers for Mitchell’s mother shows officers carrying Mitchell’s limp body to a transport car, then putting him on the ground before placing him in the car. The suit names Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith and jail officers as defendants.
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Anthony Mitchell was being held in an Alabama jail after a health and wellness check. He was placed into a large freezer there for hours until his death. Here is footage of him being hauled out of the jail with a body temp of 72. The officer that leaked this video has been fired. pic.twitter.com/3Jhx6vzhul
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For the unversed, Mitchell had a history of drug addiction, and he was arrested on Jan. 12 after a cousin asked authorities to do a welfare check on him because he was rambling about portals to heaven and hell in his home and appeared to be suffering a mental breakdown. Jail video shows Mitchell was kept naked in a concrete-floored isolation cell, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit speculates that Mitchell was also placed in the jail kitchen’s “walk-in freezer or similar frigid environment and left there for hours” because his body temperature was so low.