LAPD Recite Cop Mantra, "he spit on me," to Justify Beating and Smothering Defenseless Latino Man to Death in Jail
/The Los Angeles Police Department released a video that shows a gang of white police officers at the Valley jail beat and smother a Latino inmate who died after he was left handcuffed with a bag over his head while laying prone on the bunk in his cell. The cops weren’t defending themselves. All forced used offensively is excessive.
The LAPD released footage of an incident that led to the murder of 58-year-old Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz at Van Nuys Regional Jail.
An LAPD spokesman said officers used force on Hoyos-Munoz after he was uncooperative and spit on them.
Mayor Karen Bass said after the footage was released that she is issuing an executive order authorizing “an independent evaluation of officer-involved deaths and severe injuries,” particularly those involving individuals experiencing a mental crisis.
LAPD officials on Friday released security camera footage showing a group of officers piling on top of a man and beating him before he died in a San Fernando Valley jail cell, one of two recent incidents that prompted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to call for an independent review of police killings of people in mental distress.
A police spokesperson said officers at Van Nuys Regional Jail used force on Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz, 58, after he was uncooperative and spit on them.
The footage released by the LAPD showed officers converge on Hoyos-Munoz several times after he behaved erratically in his cell in the early morning hours of July 15. He was struck several times while pinned down and in handcuffs.
The officers placed a hood over Hoyos-Munoz’s head after he they claimed he ‘spit on them,’ the LAPD spokesperson said, and he was left with the covering on while he lay prone with his hands behind his back. [MORE]
