Demetrius T. Nelson

Less-than-lethal force

Nelson and his girlfriend had an overheated car. He pulled into a shopping complex parking lot and accidently lost the radiator cap. An intense argument broke out between the two, which attracted the center's security and then pulled in a deputy. Nelson argued and physically fought the deputy, was Tased five times and put into leg irons, went into the "respiratory arrest" in back of the patrol car, and died.