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August 21, 2020

Newly Released Bodycam Footage Shows Two Deaths at Hands of Phoenix Police
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In Arizona, body-camera and surveillance footage released Tuesday show
Phoenix police officers held a man on the hot asphalt for nearly six
minutes before he died in the back of a police car earlier this month.
Twenty-eight-year-old Ramon Timothy Lopez was apprehended on August 4,
chased and tackled to the ground by one of the officers. Two others
later arrived on the scene. After pressing him into the scorching hot
pavement for six minutes, Lopez was lifted and placed in the back of a
police car, where he was later found unresponsive. Photographs revealed
his skin was covered in burns.

In related news, the family of Muhammad Muhaymin Jr., a Black Muslim man
who was killed by Phoenix police in 2017, is renewing calls for justice
after recently released video footage shows Muhaymin screaming "I can't
breathe" and calling "Please Allah" before he died. Footage shows the
43-year-old was held down by at least four Phoenix police officers for
nearly eight minutes; one of the officers is seen pressing his knee into
Muhaymin's neck. The family has since filed a $10 million wrongful death
lawsuit.


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