MEXICO CITY: A man who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police, prosecutors said Saturday.
Mexico City attorney general's office announced in a press statement that two city policemen who took custody of the man after he was removed from the tracks have been charged with homicide for allegedly beating him to death later in a patrol car.
Truck driver Albano Ramirez Santos, reportedly despondent over the theft of his truck, had tried to kill himself on Thursday by jumping onto the tracks at a city subway station; trains were stopped, but Ramirez Santos told a subway conductor to leave him where he was because he wanted to die.
Station employees removed him from the tracks.
Police were then summoned and the two officers took him to a police station; but when they got there, an ambulance had to be called because he was unconscious. Medics said he was dead by the time they arrived.
A forensic report showed the man died of blows to the chest and head that were not caused by his jumping onto the tracks.
The two officers, Jose de Jesus Sanchez Lemus and Carmelo Campechano Granados, were taken to a city jail to await arraignment on the charges.
Prosecutors offered no motive for the alleged homicide.
Link to StoryWhat's your poison? Rather be beaten to death or tazed unconscious? Club or TASER???? Either one can be wrong when used inappropriately....or right and acceptable when used correctly.
AND, probably 500 or more, world wide, got a Taser used on them last night without dying....
In custody death is not a new thing. It's been recorded many times since the '60's....coincidentally about the time that the unlawful drug use movement really got stirred up. At first it was laid at the feet of the "LA choke hold", then labeled "positional asphyxiation", then was blamed on "excited delirum", and now Taser is the bad guy of the hour.
I'm not defending the police in this video...although there is more than likely a lot more to the story that just this video (just like there was with the Rodney King video, which was why the officers involved there were exonerated). I just want to point out that not every "in custody death" is a conspiracy, or even a homicide.
