The mother of Irvo Otieno, a man who died while in custody at a state psychiatric hospital, spoke about her son's 'inhumane death' at a news conference on Thursday after viewing surveillance video of the incident.
at a state hospital, spoke about her son's"inhumane" death at a news conference on Thursday after viewing surveillance video of the incident. The conference was held on the same day it was announced three employees of the hospital had been arrested in relation to Otieno's death.
But the surveillance video tells a different story, his family said Thursday after viewing the video with attorneys Benjamin Crump and Mark Krudys."My son was tortured," Otieno's mother, Caroline Ouko, said, adding that the deputies were on top of Otieno until"he took his last breath." "Irvo is as American as apple pie," said his mother, who shared the family's journey of moving from Kenya to the United States when Otieno was four-years-old. He attended Freeman High School and then attended college in California, and was an aspiring hip-hop artist, his family said.The video, which has not been released publicly, is a central piece of evidence in the case that has seen arrests of 10 people in connection with Otieno's death.
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