At Rest

Less-than-lethal force
Jailed but uncharged, McDonnell was denied his medication for a bipolar disorder for 18 hours, despite his family's attempts to provide it and communicate its urgency to officers. When he disrobed and flooded his own cell, he was tasered twice, then went into fatal respiratory distress.
This record exists so that Daniel McDonnell, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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