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Standing in the lobby of Collin County Courthouse, LaSandra Scott didn’t hold anything back. Her son Marvin Scott III had been “killed by his jailers,” she said. “They smothered him to death.”
For months, Collin County officials had refused to release the video of her son’s death in custody. But on Friday, the video was made public, weeks after a grand jury decided to not charge the correctional officers who restrained and maced the 26-year-old Black man in the moments before he died.
Some 120 days have passed since his death on Mar. 14, but the Scott family struggled to hold back tears during a press conference on Monday. For her part, Scott didn’t sugarcoat her response when asked how her family was holding up. “We’re not doing good,” she said. “It feels like a bad dream.”
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