By Holly McKenzie-Sutter THE CANADIAN PRESS Cellblock footage depicting the hours before an Indigenous man died in Thunder Bay police custody showed him reaching out to ask for a drink, lying down and struggling to move. A coroner’s inquest viewed the footage Wednesday of Donald Mamakwa, 44, alone in a cell at Thunder Bay Police Service headquarters in 2014 shortly before he died from complications of diabetes and sepsis — a cause of death inquest counsel has said was likely preventable if he had been taken to a hospital. The footage, which did not have sound, showed Mamakwa at one point reaching his arm out between the bars of the cell, holding a juice box. Inquest counsel said the timing of the clip corresponded with testimony from another man who

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