A medical examiner ruled the death of Irvo Otieno to be a homicide. It's the latest development in an incident involving sheriff's deputies and hospital staff at a Virginia hospital.
Otieno, 28, died on March 6 after deputies from the Henrico County Sheriff's Office dragged him out of his room and pinned him to the ground in the Central State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Virginia. Police pushed him to the ground and piled on top of him for nearly 11 minutes. Hospital staffers looked on without interfering.In a preliminary report, the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that Otieno's cause of death was asphyxiation.
"The official cause and manner of death is not surprising to us as it corroborates what the world witnessed in the video," Crump and Krudys said."In a chilling parallel to George Floyd’s killing, Irvo was held down and excessively restrained to death, when he should have been provided medical help and compassion. It is tragic that yet another life has been lost to this malicious and deadly restraint technique.
On March 6, officers brought Otieno to the hospital and were later seen dragging him on the floor and pinning his arms and legs. They remained on top of him until Otieno died. The deputies were identified as Kaiyell Dajour Sanders, 30; Dwayne Alan Bramble, 37; Bradley Thomas Disse, 43; Jermaine Lavar Branch, 45; Brandon Edwards Rodgers, 48; Tabitha Renee Levere, 50; and Randy Joseph Boyer, 57.
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