It’s been almost eight months since a prisoner in Missouri’s Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC) frantically phoned Oriel Moore to let her know that guards had killed Moore’s 38-year-old brother, Othel, during a routine drug sweep.

But this was no routine death, it was murder. Those charged were members of a special unit contracted from another Missouri prison two hours away in Potosi. They’d been brought in to conduct the military-style operation in the massive prison complex where nearly 2,000 men are incarcerated in the state capital.

The atrocities enacted against the Black man by five white correctional officers wielding pepper spray, taser gloves, a spit hood and restraining devices since banned by state officials, are the subject of an unsparing CNN report. The video segment, aired on June 30, featured a first-person eyewitness account of the assault on Othel Moore, who’d been incarcerated at JCCC for 17 years and had survived dozens of such raids. It brings to life in excruciating detail the extreme cruelty recounted in the family’s civil rights lawsuit.

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