NEW YORK — The family of Irvo Otieno, a man who died in police custody earlier this month, reacted to the recent death of the Virginia man during a Thursday news conference.
Three days after being arrested on March 3, Otieno was transported to Central State, a psychiatric hospital in Petersburg, Virginia from Henrico County jail after reportedly suffering a mental health crisis. The same day on March 6, Otieno was pronounced dead.
"You see in the majority of the video that he seems to be in between lifelessness and unconsciousness, but yet you see him being restrained so brutally with a knee on his neck," Crump said during the conference."The weight of seven individuals on his body while he's face down, handcuffed with leg irons. … It is so unnecessary, it's so unjustifiable."
Although the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an independent review of the incident alongside an investigation by Virginia State Police, the attorneys call the Department of Justice to intervene. "He's naked. He's lost. … There's feces on the ground. It is so inhumane," Krudys said."We also saw a glimpse of the video where it's like an animal being carried by legs and arms, with his pants falling off him, into the vehicle."
Otieno's older brother emotionally spoke during the press conference, telling the public that after viewing the footage, he'd"witnessed a homicide." Branch's lawyer, Cary Bowen, told ABC News by phone that Cabell Baskervill was trying to fashion the case as something that is"malicious."
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