Less than three minutes after making contact with a man in a mental health crisis on Dec. 15, a group of Montgomery County police officers surrounded him in the hallway of a Silver Spring apartment building and tackled him as he attempted to walk away, body-worn camera footage released Tuesday shows.
The man, 31-year-old Jamal Thompson of Silver Spring, died on Dec. 22 — one week after police transferred him from their custody into the care of a local hospital. The Maryland Office of the Attorney General released body-worn camera footage of Thompson’s encounter with police as part of its Independent Investigations Division’s ongoing review of the death.
The body-worn camera footage begins around 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 15. Officers can be seen entering the lobby of the apartment complex at 9737 Mount Pisgah Road in Silver Spring, where Thompson had been visiting a friend…