A California inmate refuses orders that require him to take anti-psychotic medication for his mental disorder. After he smears his own excrement inside his cell, the attending psychiatrist and correctional officers decide to remove him forcibly from his cell and give him an injection. The officers order him to extend his hands through the cell’s food slot so that he can be handcuffed and when he ignores them, officers spray his cell with OC spray, commonly called pepper spray. He still refuses so they shoot additional bursts directly into his face and on his body until he finally submits.
He is finally forced from his cell and knocked to the floor. He is taken to another cell where he is strapped onto a gurney with all of his limbs bound.
This thirty minute record of the incident may be difficult to watch if you have a mental illness or love someone who does. But the procedures that it documents are actually carried out in a much more humane and professional manner than what I observed in the Miami Dade County jail when I did my research for my book.