GRAPHIC: ‘I am going to die’: Body camera footage released in woman’s in-custody death

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(WVLT/Gray News) - The Knoxville Police Department released footage Thursday of several officers’ interaction with Lisa Edwards, the 60-year-old woman who died in custody. At one point, an officer digs in Edwards’ purse, presumably to look for her inhaler, pulls out a pack of cigarettes and asks Edwards ,“Do you want a cigarette?”“It’s all an act,” one officer says to another. “I don’t know if she’s faking it or what, but she’s not answering,” he is heard saying as he lifts Edwards’ head by the hair

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