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Mother of 5 dies in jail amid alleged mental health episode

Newly surfaced video shows one of the disturbing final days of a mother of five before she died behind bars in a Washington state jail. According to a lawsuit her family filed against the facility, Damaris Rodriguez was suffering from a "mental health episode" in 2017 when they claim she was wrongly arrested. Nikki Battiste speaks to the woman's oldest son about why they are filing the suit.
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