NEARLY A YEAR AFTER A LIFE THREATENING STROKE. BUT FIRST. A DEFENDER'S EXCLUSIVE. LOCAL MAN GOES TO JAIL FOR AN UNPAID TRAFFIC TICKET. AND NEVER MAKES IT HOME. GOOD EVENING. IT TOPS THE NEWS AT 11:00. THE 32-YEAR-OLD ROSEVILLE MAN DIED IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MACOMB COUNTY JAIL WE HAVE TO TELL YOU. THIS IS A DIFFICULT STORY TO WATCH IT. COMES WITH A WARNING BECAUSE IT HAS ADULT IMAGES AND TOUGH CONTENT. WELL, DAVID HAS EXTREME WEIGHT-LOSS OVER 17 DAYS IN JAIL AND NEAR THE END HE WAS SO WEAK HE COULD NOT GET OFF THE FLOOR OR CALL FOR HELP. HIS FAMILY SAID THAT JAIL GUARDS AND MEDICAL STAFF NEGLECTED HIM AND IT IS ALL ON VIDEO. HERE KEVIN DIETZ JOINS US LIVE FROM MACOMB COUNTY JAIL WITH HIS EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION. KEVIN? YES, WE HAVE A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT MISTREATMENT IN JAILS. BUT RARELY DOES IT COME WITH A VIDEO. THIS VIDEO IS VERY DIFFICULT TO WATCH. THE MAN ON THIS VIDEO DIES AND HE DIES IN A HIGH OBSERVATION UNIT WHICH IS THE CELLS THAT ARE MOST CLOSE LY WATCHED HER AT THE MACOMB COUNTY JAIL. HIS FAMILY SAID THAT IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. IT IS A HARD THING TO WATCH A MAN DIE. THE HEART RACES. THEN SLOWS. AS IT FIGHTS TO SURVIVE. THE BODY TWITCHES. EYES FLUTTER AS END DRAWS NEAR. IT IS A HARD THING TO WATCH A MAN DIE. ESPECIALLY, WHEN IT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. IT IS INCONSCIONABLE THAT THEY LET THIS HUMAN BEING SUFFER LIKE THIS. 32-YEAR-OLD DAVID STAJEFFSKI WILL DIE AND FAMILY WANTS YOU TO WITNESS IT. SO IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. THIS IS NOT A PRISON CAMP IN AFGHANISTAN. THIS IS A JAIL CELL IN THE SUBURBS OF METRO DETROIT. PRISONERS HELD IN THIS UNIT ARE NOT GIVEN CLOTHES FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION. I GUESS HIS LIFE DID NOT MATTER. ACCORDING TO A FEDERAL LAWSUIT OBTAINED BY DEFENDERS HE WAS ARRESTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE FOR PART OF A CARELESS DRIVING CHARGE. ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT DAVID COULD NOT PAY $772 FINE. SO HE WAS ORDERED TO SPEND 30 DAYS IN MACOMB COUNTY JAIL. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A LIFE SENTENCE. OV ER THE NEXT 17 DAYS HE LOST AN ALARMING 50 POUNDS. NEAR THE END HE WAS VISIBLY THINNER AND NO LONGER HAD THE STRENGTH TO CALL FOR HELP. DURING THE FINAL TWO DAYS OF LIFE, DAVID NEVER GOT OFF THE COLD CEMENT JAIL CELL FLOOR. LAID THERE NAKED AND ALONE AS HE GASPED HIS FINAL BREATHS. THAT COULD BE YOUR SON OR MY SON. AND I AM SHOCKED HONESTLY. SHOCKED. TO THINK THAT WE ARE IN THE U.S. OF AMERICA. AND A AFFLUENT SUBURB. DONNA ROCKWELL A LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST, EXPERT IN ADDICTION AND WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. OH, BOY. VERY HARD TO WATCH. WE ASKED HER TO WATCH THE VIDEO OF DAVID'S IN CUSTODY DEATH. WOW! I CANNOT BELIEVE ANYBODY WAS IN CHARGE OF LOOKING AT THIS VIDEO OR AT THE CAMERA AND DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO HELP THIS PERSON. DR. FRANK MCGEORGE HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS AN EXPERT IN CUSTODY DEATH CASES. THERE IS NO REASON FOR A PERSON THAT IS INCARCERATED WHO WAS WATCHED FOR THIS PERIOD OF TIME, TO DIE-IN CUSTODY. HE SHOULD HAVE HAD MEDICAL ATTENTION. DAVID GREW UP IN A MODEST MACOMB CO UNTY NEIGHBORHOOD SON OF IMMIGRANT BAKERS. HE WENT TO SCHOOL. PLAYED SPORTS. AND HAD A VARIETY OF ODD JOBS TROUBLED. ADDICTED TO DRUGS AT A YOUNG AGE. ACCORDING TO FAMILY LAWSUIT. DAVID WAS SEEING A PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR TO BEAT ADDICTION. PRESCRIBED BY A DOCTOR, METH, XANAX AND CLONE PENN. WITHOUT THESE PRESCRIPTIONS HIS BODY WOULD GO INTO SEVERE WITHDRAWAL. IT IS A VERY OBVIOUS SIGN WITHDRAWAL. ANYBODY THAT EVEN HAS TWO MINUTES OF TRAINING KNOWS THAT. COURT DOCUMENTS SAY JUNE 10 OF LAST YEAR DAVID WAS ROUNDED UP AS PART OF A SWEEP OF MACOMB COUNTY RESIDENTS WITH WARRANTS OUT FOR THEIR ARREST. DAVID WHO FAILED TO PAY TRAFFIC TICKET WAS THROWN IN JAIL. A NURSE EVALUATED HIM AND RECOMMENDED HE BE PLACED IN MEDICAL DRUG DETOX UNIT. INSTEAD HE WENT TO A JAIL CELL. AND SIX DAYS LATER HE WAS ACTING ERRATIC AND MOVED TO MENTAL HEALTH CELL AND PUT UNDER SUICIDE WATCH. HERE HIS FINAL 11 DAYS OF LIFE WILL BE VIDEOTAPED. A VIDEO OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE LOCAL 4 DEFENDERS. PEOPLE DO N OT DIE FROM WITHDRAWAL ALL THE TIME. THEY DIE FROM WITHDRAWAL WHEN THERE IS NEGLECT ASSOCIATED WITH IT. ON DAY ONE WE SEE DAVID GETTING MEDICAL ATTENTION AND FOOD. BUT AS DAYS GO ON PERSONAL ATTENTION SLOWS. AT TIMES DAVID'S CELL MATES SEEN EATING HIS FOOD AS HE SLEEPS. DAVID IS LOSING WEIGHT RAPIDLY. WE SEE HIM HIDING UNDER THE BED TO BLOCK THE LIGHTS THAT STAY ON AROUND THE CLOCK. WOW! LOOK. IT IS LIKE AN ANIMAL CLIMBING UNDER SOMETHING TO DIE. DAVID'S BODY SPASMS. HIS MUSCLES TWITCH. EXPERTS SAY CLEAR SIGNS OF SOMEONE IN WITHDRAWAL. THERE YOU GO. THERE IS A SEIS. YOU ARE THEY TELL US THIS IS NOT A PRISONER FAKING IN HOPES OF RECEIVING MEDICATION OR A TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL. THERE IS NOT ONE SECOND OF LOOKING AT THAT VIDEO WHERE I THINK HE IS FAKING. IT IS OBVIOUS HE IS NOT FAKING. ON DAY EIGHT DAVID IS ACTING ERRATIC AGAIN, GETS IN A FIGHT WITH ANOTHER INMATE. GUARDS COME AND CLEAR THE OTHERS FROM THE CELL LEAVING DAVID ALONE. AND FEW MINUTES LATER HE SEEMS TO BE REENACTING THE FIGHT. OUR EXPERTS SAY HE IS LIKELY HALLUCINATING. A COMMON SYMPTOM OF SERIOUS WITHDRAWAL FROM PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS. THAT'S A POINT WHERE SOMEONE IS ENTERING A REAL MEDICAL CRISIS PERIOD. DAVID THEN SITS LEGS FOLDED FOR SEVERAL HOURS. THEN LAYS DOWN. HE WILL NOT GET UP AGAIN. I THINK, THAT THERE ARE SO MANY POINTS IN THIS VIDEO WHERE SOMEONE THAT HAD ANY HUMANITY WOULD LOOK AT THIS PERSON AND SAY, I BETTER FIGURE OUT WHETHER THEY NEED HELP. FOR THE NEXT 48 PLUS HOURS DAVID WILL LAY HERE. HIS BODY PREPARING TO DIE. AND GUARDS ARE REQUIRED TO WATCH PRISONERS IN THIS WARD VIA SECURITY CAMERAS AND MONITORS. TO TAKE NOTES ON THE PRISONER'S CONDITIONS EVERY 15 MINUTES. AND DAVID SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHECKED 96 TIMES A DAY. THE VIDEO SHOWED HIS FOOD WENT UNTOUCHED FINAL DAY AS HE LAY ON THE FLOOR SLOWLY DYING. HE DID NOT COMMIT A VIOLENT CRIME IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD AND THIS IS HOW HE IS TREATED? OH, MY GOD. KEVIN. DAVID LAY THERE ON THE CEMENT FLOOR WITH CAMERAS ROLLING. AF TER LOSING 50 POUNDS IN 17 DAYS HE WAS TOO WEEK TO GET UP AND SEEK HELP. HIS BODY CONVULSING AND TWITCHING. CHEST CAVITY CAVES IN. FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE, BREATHING SPEEDS UP AND THEN SLOWS DOWN. PEOPLE STOP MOVING. RESPIRATORY RATE BECOMES IRREGULAR. AND THAT'S PART OF THE DYING PROCESS. IT IS A HARD THING TO WATCH A MAN DIE. WE DO NOT KNOW IF GUARDS WERE WATCHING DAVID ON THE MONITORS AT THIS TIME. BUT WHEN THEY FINALLY DO COME IN. IT WAS TOO LATE. AND THERE IS NO AUDIO BUT THE OFFICERS ARE SEEN RADIOING FOR HELP. AND A GUARD TRIES TO GIVE CPR AND THEN MORE GUARDS APPEAR. AND FOLLOWED BY SOMEONE THAT APPEARS TO BE MEDICAL PERSONNEL. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WHEN, YOU KNOW, HIS LIFE WAS NEARING ITS END. THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH PEOPLE. WHERE WERE THEY? WHERE WERE THEY? WHEN HE NEED THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT HE STAYED ALIVE? DAVID IS PUT ON A STRETCHER. AND TAKEN OUT OF THE MACOMB COUNTY JAIL. HE WILL BE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE HOSPITAL. AND HIS DEATH CERTIFICATE LISTS THE CAUSE OF DEATH AS A ACUTE WITHDRAWAL FROM MEDICATIONS. WHAT KIND OF MEDCHECK COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN DONE? HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT IS A HARD THING TO WATCH A MAN DIE. HIS FAMILY WANTS YOU TO WITNESS IT. SO THAT IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. DAVID WAS NOT MARRIED AND HE DID NOT HAVE CHILDREN. HIS MOM AND DAD DO LIVE HERE LOCALLY. AND THEY LIVED THROUGH HIS MANY TROUBLES WITH DRUG ADDICTION. THEY DID NOT VISIT HIM HERE AT THE MACOMB COUNTY JAIL AND THEY WERE NOT NOTIFIED BY THE JAIL THAT HE WAS HAVING ANY MEDICAL ISSUES DURING HIS STAY. DAVID ALSO HAS A BROTHER THAT IS ARRESTED IN THAT SAME SWEEP FOR NOT PAYING TRAFFIC TICKETS HE WAS BROUGHT HERE TO THE SAME JAIL. HE ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL. NOT THE MORGUE. GUY, CARMEN. NOW THAT WE HAVE SEEN A VERY DISTURBING VIDEO. WHAT IS THE SHERIFF SAYING ABOUT ALL OF THIS? KEVIN? WELL, SHERIFF WICKERSHAM SAID HE COULD NOT COMMENT BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING LITIGATION BUT WE HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO CORPORATE CO UNSEL IN MACOMB. THEY SAY THE CASE ACTUALLY LACKS HELMET AND EXPECT TO PREVAIL WHEN THIS CASE GOES TO TRIAL. AND NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT A SETTLEMENT OUT HERE. THEY BELIEVE THIS CASE WILL GO TO TRIAL. SO ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT WORK HERE. THE STAFF. THE GUARDS. MEDICAL PEOPLE. WILL ALL EVENTUALLY BE ON THE STAND AND TELL THEIR STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED IN DAVID'S FINAL DAYS. ALL RIGHT.
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