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For more than two hours, Joseph Arquillo lay motionless on a mat inside the Cuyahoga County Jail before anyone bothered to check on him, jail security video released to cleveland.com shows.
A now-indicted officer at one point walked up, kicked his mat and walked away, leaving the 47-year-old inmate to sit another hour until another inmate alerted a different officer. By the time he ended up at MetroHealth, he was dead.
Cuyahoga County released video Friday from its downtown jail that shows Arquillo’s slow death that is at the center of criminal charges against the former warden and the corrections officer accused of ignoring him while he died.
The county initially denied the video’s release, and cleveland.com filed a complaint with the Ohio Court of Claims on grounds that videos of various instances of suspected wrongdoing at the jail are in the public’s interest. The county relented and released the video Friday amid ongoing mediation ordered by the Ohio Court of Claims.
It was the second video released by the county related to criminal charges against jail employees.