The Phoenix Police Department (Arizona state) opened an investigation against the officers involved in the death of a man of Latino origin, after he was arrested.
In case of Ramon Timothy Lopez, 28 years old, recalls what happened a few months ago with the African American George Floyd, a fact that sparked intense demonstrations in the United States.
Timothy Loez died during an arrest, after the police officers in charge of his capture subjected him on the pavement for more than six minutes, in intense heat that raised the temperature to 37 degrees Celsius.
The local police unit released the video of the arrest that occurred on August 14, taken by the body cameras of the officers.
“A LITTLE STRANGE WAS ACTING”: THE COMPLAINT THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL POLICE OPERATION
The motive for the actions of the police came after the report of a person who denounced that a man “He was acting a little strange,” because he would stick out his tongue and look at cars in a parking lot. As a result, the officers arrived at the scene of the incident, corresponding to a parking lot in a shopping center.
Once he became aware of the presence of the uniformed men, the man tried to run to escape the scene. However, the police chased him and managed to knock the subject down, after which they held him face down on the pavement from 5:39 p.m. to 5:45 p.m., according to the time shown by the police body cameras.
Despite the man’s screams, the policemen told him that he would not go anywhere. After the six minutes on the pavement, the officers lifted the man and loaded him into an unconscious truck, they had to carry him to put him on the patrol.
Realizing that he did not wake up, the police officers lowered him from the vehicle to try to make him react and give him water, but the efforts were unsuccessful. Later, doctors who arrived aboard an ambulance declared him dead, although the reason for his death has not been determined.
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