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SATURDAY 11.22.14

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STORY, PAGE A7

MONMOUTH COUNTY JAIL

JAIL SCUFFLE
VIDEO AIRED

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ALTERCATION STARTS The video showed Bornstein

appearing agitated as he spoke to someone off camera
around 4:11 p.m., according to the time stamp.

Surveillance footage shows up to a dozen officers

struggling to restrain inmate, who died hours later

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MANY INVOLVED At least eight guards were either in

direct contact with Bornstein or standing around before
the guards moved Bornstein again, the video showed.

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CONSTANT WATCH ROOM Monmouth County Jail guards placed Amit Bornstein in a wheelchair and took him to a
constant watch room, where guards surrounded him, stripped him and appeared to struggle with him, as seen in a
surveillance video. Bornstein was placed in a restraint chair naked, wearing an anti-spit mask and a blanket over his lap.

SUSANNE CERVENKA @SCERVENKA

A surveillance video released Friday shows up to a

dozen guards restraining a Monmouth County Jail inmate who died within hours of the altercation in 2010.
The Asbury Park Press obtained a copy of the footage, which was captured by five different security
cameras within the Freehold correctional facility, from
the U.S. District Court in Trenton, where county officials had sought to keep it under seal.
The video is a part of a wrongful-death civil lawsuit
filed by the father of inmate Amit Bornstein. Authorities who investigated his death say jail guards acted

FALLING OVER Bornstein appeared at times to either

turn or fall over to his side before sitting up again
before guards placed him in a wheelchair.

within reason. But Bornsteins father and lawyer claim

in the lawsuit that the 22-year-old aspiring professional
poker player from Marlboro was battered by corrections officers and that Bornstein sustained bodily
harm resulting in his death.
The county said in court papers that its officers are
not liable for the death.
Bornstein was picked up by sheriffs deputies about
12:30 p.m. on July 29, 2010, for failure to appear in court
for disorderly persons and traffic violations, and was
being booked when the altercation began. The video

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