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From [HERE] Another Dallas County jail inmate has died after fighting with jail officers, resulting in a new federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against the county.

At issue is the question of whether restraint by the jail officers caused or contributed to the Nov. 10 death of George Barnes Koomson. Similar circumstances surround two other jail deaths that are still in litigation.

Mary Koomson, his widow, and Samuel Koomson, his father, sued the county, the jail officers involved and Parkland Memorial Hospital. The hospital provides jail medical care and was where Koomson was pronounced dead.

Their suit says Koomson, 44, was arrested by Dallas police on Oct. 31 on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. On Nov. 3, he stopped breathing and was taken to Parkland where he was put on artificial life support, the suit said. He remained in a comatose state until his death a week later.

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