WATCH: Ohio officers pepper-spraying a person in a restraint chair — again – WBNews

The moment Charles Wade realized he was about to be strapped into a restraint chair, he later recalled, he was filled with terror. He was about to be booked in October inside the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, the same place a woman named Amber Swink had been pepper-sprayed inside a seven-point harness the year before. Shocking video of Swink struggling to breathe and then passing out in an isolation cell covered in orange spray — treatment she would later call “torture” — had recently gone viral and Wade claimed he had watched it online. Now, in circumstances that felt eerily similar, Wade was about to be strapped inside his own restraint chair inside the same jail while video cameras rolled. For Wade, a black man surrounded by white officers in a jail dogged by allegations of abuse, the circumstances were nightmarish, he later said. Within minutes, Wade — fully restrained and surrounded by officers — would be writhing in pain and screaming “I can’t breathe” after enduring two blasts of pepper-spray at point blank range. Video of the incident was given to The Washington Post by a local community activist. On Tuesday, Wade filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Ohio, accusing members of the sheriff’s department of using excessive force “that shocked the conscience and in fact amounted to torture” and “violated his rights to be secure from cruel and unusual punishment.” Like the previous incident involving Swink, the filing also alleges that department officials orchestrated…more detail