A grand jury has indicted seven Virginia sheriff's deputies and three hospital staffers involved in the death of 28-year-old Irvo Otieno. Surveillance footage of his death showed people pushing and pinning him to the ground until he died.
The indictments come just hours after the release of the surveillance footage of his death showed people pushing and pinning him to the ground until he died.The video was obtained by the Washington Post hours before its expected release on Tuesday, showing around seven police officers from the Henrico County Sheriff's Office dragging Otieno out of his room where he was staying in the Central State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Virginia, on March 6.
"There is video footage of exactly what happened, and he was not agitated and combative. He was held down on the ground, pinned on the ground for 12 minutes by all seven of our defendants charged here," Baskervill said last Wednesday. On March 3, Otieno seemed to be in distress and went to a neighbor's lawn, picking up solar-powered lights laid out on the property, prompting a neighbor to call the police. Officers arrested him under an emergency custody order before taking him to the hospital for"further evaluation," per a police statement. Otieno's family supported the decision, asking the police not to be aggressive with him.
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