Graphic video captures death of Irvo Otieno in Virginia police custody.

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Surveillance footage from a state psychiatric hospital in Virginia shows a group of sheriff’s deputies and medical staff piling on a handcuffed man, Irvo Otieno, and pinning him on the floor for around 11 minutes, until his death on March 6. The Dinwiddie County prosecutor has charged seven sheriff’s deputies and three employees of the hospital with second-degree murder. Mr. Otieno, who struggled with mental health problems and had been taken from his home three days earlier, was moved to Central State Hospital by sheriff’s deputies from a county jail earlier on March 6.
- Video Shows Irvo Otieno’s Death in Virginia Police Custody The New York Times
- Graphic video shows officers piling on hospital patient Irvo Otieno TODAY
- Video shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor in the moments before his death CNN
- Video shows Virginia deputies, medical staffers struggling to restrain Black man Yahoo News
- Virginia Deputies Charged With Murder in Man's Death at Mental Hospital Mad in America
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