A Jacksonville man who died after an altercation with officers at the Duval County jail in August has been identified as Daniel Taylor.
Taylor, 30, was accused of trespassing at the Omni Hotel and was arrested Aug. 13 on a misdemeanor charge. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, he went to his first scheduled court appearance and was scheduled to be released the same day but was told he had to return to his cell to wait for the discharge process.
“He had a really big heart. You know, he had a really fierce love for his family,” said Taylor’s sister Noel Taylor.“It’s really hard to wrap your head around that somebody who, you know, he was custody, but I think that there’s a reasonable expectation that he would have been, you know, safe and not end up in a state where, you know, he goes from a misdemeanor trespassing offense to brain dead,” she said.
According to an incident report, Taylor refused and “became combative.” At least one other officer responded and the report says Taylor bit one of them. He was charged with battery on an officer and two counts of resisting an officer with violence.Taylor’s sister said police told her he was given the sedative Ketamine and that her brother was restrained by around 10 officers. An eyewitness“The hospital staff said that Daniel arrived at the hospital, intubated already,” Noel Taylor said.
A death certificate provided by the family lists the cause of death as lack of oxygen to the brain because of an irregular heartbeat following a violent physical altercation.
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