Three months after requesting video from the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, the state’s jail regulatory agency still does not have three minutes of footage missing from a Tarrant County jail death case file.
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards “does not have the missing three minutes of footage” in the documentation submitted by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office for Chasity Bonner, who died in the jail in May, said program specialist Alyssa McMahon in response to a recent open records request for the missing footage.
The Star-Telegram discovered the footage was not included in security camera video obtained through an open records request in April. It consists of the three minutes immediately preceding the medical emergency that resulted in Bonner’s death in her cell in the Tarrant County Corrections Center in downtown Fort Worth on May 27, 2024…