Police Are Deleting Smartphone Videos At Crime Scenes Even Though It is Illegal
- By ERIC MARKOWITZ | International Business Times
- May 3, 2016
- 1 min read
LOS ANGELES — In the early hours of April 13, 2015, in a residential neighborhood in south Los Angeles, police arrived outside the home of Alex Jimenez, a 35-year-old man who was experiencing severe "emotional issues," according to Luis Carillo, an attorney now representing Jimenez's family. By the end of the night, he was dead.
What happened that evening is still shrouded in mystery, but according to a lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department in late April, one of the responding officers placed Jimenez in handcuffs, pushed him to the ground, Tasered him and held him down with a knee to the neck. Witnesses said Jimenez was screaming in Spanish, begging officers not to take him away. Then, according to the lawsuit, he began "to vomit, turn blue, and ultimately die."
PHOTO: REUTERS/CRAIG LASSIG
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