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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:05 PM Jun 2020

New Mexico cop charged with involuntary manslaughter after man in custody dies in neck restraint

A police officer from Las Cruces, New Mexico, is being charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of a man who he had restrained in February and placed in a neck restraint.

The man, Antonio Valenzuela, was pulled over on February 29 during a traffic stop, left the vehicle, and started running from officers, according to CBS El Paso affiliate KDBC-TV. Valenzuela had a bench warrant for his arrest from New Mexico Probation and Parole.

According to KDBC-TV, police said two officers tased him to no effect. A search warrant affidavit obtained by KDBC-TV said that Valenzuela was told multiple times to stop resisting the arrest, and that he had reached for a knife in his pocket.

Officer Christopher Smelser placed Valenzuela in a "vascular neck restraint" to subdue him, KDBC-TV reported. Valenzuela then became unresponsive, and was declared dead on the scene, police said.

Read the rest at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-mexico-cop-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-after-man-in-custody-dies-in-neck-restraint/
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New Mexico cop charged with involuntary manslaughter after man in custody dies in neck restraint (Original Post) PoliticAverse Jun 2020 OP
Were their any videos of this encounter ??? SamKnause Jun 2020 #1

SamKnause

(13,037 posts)
1. Were their any videos of this encounter ???
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 10:44 PM
Jun 2020

If not, I don't believe a word the officers have to say.

They are liars.

Stop resisting is their go to phrase.

I feared for my life is another.

I didn't see any mention of body cams.

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