MEXICO CITY: Mexican prosecutors have opened a murder investigation into the demise of a lady who was proven on video being pinned to the bottom by a feminine police officer, authorities mentioned on Sunday.
Police have been “probably” concerned in her demise, which had broken “institutions and society,” the legal professional normal’s workplace of the state of Quintana Roo mentioned in an announcement following the lady’s demise on Saturday within the Caribbean seaside resort of Tulum.
A video printed by information website Noticaribe confirmed the lady squirming and crying out as she lay face down on a highway with a policewoman kneeling on her again whereas male officers stood by.
The video, whose authenticity Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm, then lower to point out the unidentified girl’s susceptible, handcuffed physique mendacity on the highway. Officers are later seen transferring the limp, shoeless physique into the again of a police truck.
A spokeswoman for the legal professional normal’s workplace mentioned it was not clear why the lady had been detained and that the reason for her demise was nonetheless underneath investigation. Three male officers and one feminine officer had to this point been questioned, the workplace mentioned.
The National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence Against Women (CONAVIM) condemned the incident on Twitter and mentioned these accountable should be held to account.
Alejandro Encinas, deputy inside minister chargeable for human rights, referred to as the incident an act of “police abuse.”
The incident bore similarity to the case of George Floyd, an African-American man whose demise in May as a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck sparked racial justice protests within the United States and world wide.
Widespread and rising violence in opposition to girls has lengthy outraged many Mexicans, and has sparked main protests underneath the administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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