Another Nightmare Video and the Police on the Defensive in Tucson: Carlos Ingram Lopez

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/carlos-ingram-lopez-death-tucson-.html

It was another gruesome video of policing in America — a naked Latino man, his face covered by a mesh spit guard, his hands cuffed behind him as he lay dying face down on the ground at his grandmother’s house. He pleaded for water more than a dozen times, saying he could not breathe as police officers restrained his legs and torso.

This time, the scene was a southern Arizona city with a politically moderate image, a large Latino population and a Police Department said to be relatively progressive.

The victim was Carlos Ingram Lopez, a 27-year-old cooking school graduate who prepared every meal from scratch for his 2-year-old daughter and watched YouTube videos to learn how to comb her hair. His death, as he was having a mental health crisis that led to a call for help, was a jarring reminder that Latinos as well as African-Americans have a troubled history with the police, even though Latinos’ struggles do not get the same attention.

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Three officers involved in Mr. Lopez’s death resigned before the public release of the video, and Chris Magnus, Tucson’s police chief, offered to resign.

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Ms. Jaramillo, the Tucson lawyer, said she had been having trouble sleeping since viewing the video in which Mr. Lopez died while calling out for his nana, or grandmother.

Ms. Jaramillo, who now assists victims of domestic violence, said she was struck especially by how Mr. Lopez’s grandmother, Magdalena Ingram, was treated dismissively by officers in her own home when she asked about her grandson while the officers were restraining him. She had called 911 because he was having a mental health crisis and acting erratically.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/carlos-ingram-lopez-death-tucson-.html

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1. Is there a link to the video?

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3. must be somewhere. I didn't look. still traumatized by the George Floyd video

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10. here

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2. Oh god.. how sad. Why can't the police

act responsibly so they don't kill anyone in their charge?!

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4. the family called the police because of a mental health crisis... why do the cops execute

the mentally ill?

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5. Exactly.. heartbreaking. I feel really

bad for his daughter & grandmother. If it were me I would be wishing I never called them.

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11. This is horrible. I see why the protests are calling for re-allocation...

of police funds. It's so obvious that police are not the ones to handle a call like this. The first thing the big, bully cop yells in an intimidating voice is, "get on the ground."

In a situation like that a mental health pro with a gentle approach is needed instead of intimidating cops who immediately escalate the situation into a physical confrontation where they of course are determined to dominate, which far too often leads to tragic conclusions.

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6. Rachel just covered this story and had the mayor on

it's pretty absurd. He was killed in April, the chief was briefed on it the next day, but never bothered to look at the bodycam footage until last week, which is when he told the city council and mayor about the murder: they had no idea! And then yesterday which should have been about Mr Lopez and a chance for the city to grieve, the police chief decided to offer his resignation. Fine, offer your resignation--it wasn't accepted--but not that day. Not after waiting 2 months to make this horror public.

And the mayor's answers were wholly insufficient and, mu ch as I love Rachel, her politeness gets in the way sometimes because she didn't press hard enough and allowed the mayor to filibuster and say very little.

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8. Sigh, I pray dem leadership understands right now is ... NOT ... the time to tie themselves closely

... with stupid acting police.

Americans aren't bad people we don't need to be policed like we are

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7. omfg

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9. K & R for visibility