Update: Body Exhumed In Death Investigation

The body of a man who died while being booked into jail was exhumed today. Shortly afterward, a crowd of about 300 marched on Nashville city hall and confronted the police chief about that case and others. The remains of 29-year-old Larry "Nicky" Hill will undergo two independent autopsies. The N-Double-A-C-P Arkansas State Conference claims that Hill and up to 11 other blacks have died in police custody in Howard County over the past decade; officials put the total at four and say officers did nothing to prompt Hill`s death. Hill died September 13th after running from officers who tried to arrest him for drunken driving. He was subdued by Nashville police officer Steve Dallas, who used pepper spray, and a deputy whose hand was broken in the scuffle. Police say Hill was in the booking room of the jail when he began having trouble breathing and collapsed; he was taken to Howard Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead that evening. Posted by Mike Hellgren