County Jail Appeals Release Of Footage Regarding Inmates’ Death

Shawnee Police Department responds to a dispatch report of a disturbance by a man with a sledge hammer. The man is Ronald Gene Given. Less than one day later, Given is checked into Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center’s jail on a district charge of assault and battery on a police officer.

Seven days later, he’s dead.

The probable cause of death: multiple system organ failure due to cardiac arrhy…