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After a two year legal battle, graphic surveillance video of 19-year-old Ashley Smith was finally released Wednesday.

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The now-dead teen’s haunting protests filled a coroner’s courtroom Wednesday as the footage was screened showing the troubled inmate repeatedly tranquilized against her will or being threatened with having her face duct-taped.

“Ow, it hurts,” Ashley Smith, hooded Smith yells at one point as prison guards duct-tape her reddened hands to an airplane seat.

“Trust me: I am calm,” she says in a thin voice at another point, as guards threaten her.

I’ll duct-tape your face

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The airplane video, from April 2007, shows Smith’s transfer from a Saskatoon prison, where she had an altercation with a guard who was charged, then acquitted, of assaulting her.

Although she doesn’t appear to be putting up much resistance and she’s wearing two “spit hoods” over her face, the guards duct-tape her hands to the arm rests.