The 28-year-old Black man died at a Virginia mental health facility earlier this month. A grand jury indicted 10 deputies and hospital workers on charges of second-degree murder.
published a 9-minute clip of the video on Tuesday morning, ahead of its planned release. The newspaper says it obtained the recording by clicking on links from a public court filing by the prosecutor in the case.
Otieno had been taken into custody three days earlier while suffering mental health distress near his home in Henrico County, south of Richmond, Va. The grand jury met on Tuesday morning, hours ahead of the planned public release of the hospital surveillance footage that captured Otieno's killing.said on Monday that he planned to watch the video, and called for patience from the public as well as reforms in the mental health system.
"I am committed to ensuring this investigation of these most tragic circumstances where a young man has died will be thorough and complete. His family and all of Henrico deserves no less," she added.Otieno's attorneys, Mark Krudys and Ben Crump, have described his death as the culmination of a"continuum of abuse" he faced after being taken into custody during an episode of mental health distress on March 3.
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