Surveillance video from the hospital shows officers on top of the patient
Several police and hospital workers immobilized Irvo Otieno, who was handcuffed, press down on the floor for a few minutes before your body goes limp and you start a healing process. resuscitationThis emerges from images from surveillance cameras that are available to the American newspaper “Washington Post” this Tuesday (21).
Kenyan Irvo Otieno, who immigrated to the United States at the age of four, died shortly after the March 6 incident. He was admitted to Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, according to District Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill. Authorities did not disclose the reason for his hospitalization.
This is the latest police death of a black person that has drawn national attention in the United States.
It was three expsychiatric employees and seven sheriffs from Henrico County, Virginia prisoners and charged Second Degree Murder.
The video shows about six police officers carrying Otieno into a room, his arms tied behind his back. He appears to be struggling as he is laid on the ground. Several police officers and hospital workers hold him down while others look on. One of them also handcuffs his legs.
In the episode, Otieno is seen lying motionless when he is turned over by officers who begin chest compressions. They later brought in a defibrillator and tried to revive him.
- It wasn’t clear in the video edited by how much time Otieno stayed held back.
- A preliminary report from coroners said that Otieno died of suffocation.
- Prosecutors say he was physically restrained during the admissions process because it was “combative”.
- Authorities have not said why Otieno was kidnapped. in custodya or why it was transferred to an establishment of Mental health.
- The police were deployed Administrative License and the sheriff’s office conducts a Investigation regardless of the incident.
1 of 1 Kenyan Irvo Otieno, who moved to the US with his family when he was 4, in an undated photo from the personnel file released after his death — Photo: Ben Crump Law/Handout via Portal Kenyan Irvo Otieno , who moved to the United States with his family aged 4 in undated photo from private archives released after his death — Photo: Ben Crump Law/Handout via Portal