Three minutes missing from jail death footage Tarrant sheriff sent to state

The missing minutes in the footage are essential for outside investigators to get a complete understanding of what happened in Bonner’s case, according to Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at UT Austin. “In order to have a full appreciation of the circumstances surrounding a death in custody, it is critical to know everything that happened in the minutes leading up to that death,” she said in an email exchange. “For example, did anyone have physical contact with the person who died? Was she calling out for assistance? Did anyone pass by her cell and see her in distress?”