Officers Cleared in Connecticut Man's Death

0:00A new report from Connecticut's Office of Inspector General clears Wulcott police of any criminal wrongdoing in the custody death of 54-year-old Joseph Jackson from Bristol. This happened early on June 3, 2025, when officers responded to a home on Dale Avenue around 1am to reports of NAM out of control man freaking out. Jackson was highly agitated on the front porch, mumbling and moving erratically, likely under the influence of cocaine based on later findings. Officers tried to calm him with help from a friend, but he kept resisting attempts to enter the house. They handcuffed him for safety while waiting for an ambulance and held him face down on the porch for about 11 minutes, a move that went against. Department policy, when emergency medical services arrived, a paramedic gave Jackson an injection of hall doll to settle him down. Officers had found an unlabeled pill bottle in his pocket containing white powder, which a resident later admitted taking and dumping out. That man was arrested for

1:01interfering with police. The investigation points to two main factors in Jackson's cardiac arrest on the way to St Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, where he was pronounced, dead at 232am. It could be as cocaine used combined with pre-existing heart disease, or those plus the prolonged prone restraint leading to breathing issues. The chief medical examiner listed the manner of death as homicide tied to drugs and restraint. While the officer's actions weren't criminal given the chaotic situation, the report stresses better training on restraint risks to prevent future. Tragedies like this one. That's your update from Harford News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cori with the story.