At Rest

Less-than-lethal force
Three deputies responding to a report that a man was breaking windows at a condominium complex encountered Gary Roell on a back porch, naked from the waist down. Roell, who suffered from bipolar depression and schizophrenia, resisted arrest and struggled with the three officers. One officer tased him, and shortly after Roell was handcuffed, he became unresponsive and died.
This record exists so that Gary Roell, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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