Irvo Otieno’s family wanted the video to be released. | Fountain: AFP
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A heartbreaking video shows the death of a 28-year-old man at the entrance to the entrance. mental hospital from the US, where he was forcibly held by up to 10 police officers and hospital guards.
Death Irvo Otieno March 6 in Virginia (east) debate revived about how US security forces treat people with mental illness.
Seven District Police Henricomostly African-Americans, and three employees of the Central City Hospital in St. Petersburg were charged with murder last week.
Fiscal Ann Cabell Baskerville claims that the 28-year-old man died “of suffocation” while being “physically handicapped”.
A video of the tragedy, filmed by a security camera and released on Tuesday by various media outlets, shows him arriving at the hospital after three days in a cell.
Handcuffed, ankle-cuffed, bare-chested and without shoes, he walks hunched over, dragged by agents.
First, he sits on the floor, leaning back on the chair. A few minutes later he lies on the ground and is being held without knowing the reason. One officer stands over him and another appears to press his knee on Otieno’s head or neck as up to 10 hospital workers watch. Some sometimes help them.
It seems that they want to immobilize him, tie his legs and put pressure on different parts of the body, especially at the level of the abdomen, for at least 11 minutes.
When they release the pressure Irvo Otieno He is unconscious and pulseless.
Attempts to revive him fail.
Controversy in the US
Family Irvo Otieno He wanted the video to be broadcast.
Last week, his mother, Caroline Ouko, said her son was suffering from a mental illness crisis.
“My son was treated like a dog, worse than a dog. I saw it with my own eyes (…) they suffocated my child,” he said.
Family lawyer Ben Crump compared this case to a murder George Floyd, a black man in his forties who died in 2020 from asphyxiation by a white police officer. The video of his ordeal went viral around the world and sparked protests against racism and police violence. (AFP)
Source: RPP
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