As his wife shouts ‘please somebody tell me that he is alive!’ five cops push his body and head the into blacktop, according to the video. The handcuffed 44-year-old was also hit with pepper spray.
The lawyer for an Oklahoma man who died while being restrained by police released a dramatic cellphone video of the incident Tuesday.
Luis Rodriguez died after being held down by five policemen in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.
His distraught wife, who is recording the takedown on her cellphone, can be heard screaming, “You kill him! You kill him! You killed my husband!”
Luis Rodriguez, 44, died in custody after five Oklahoma officers held him face down in a movie theater parking lot. A family attorney release cellphone video Tuesday shot by wife Nair Rodriguez, who is heard screaming ‘You kill him! You kill him! You killed my husband!”
Three officers have been placed on administrative leave following the disturbance outside a movie theater earlier this month.
Nair Rodriguez shot nearly six minutes of video as Moore Police Department officers held down her husband. “Papa!” she shouts as her husband appears not to move while being held facedown in the parking lot.
“Is he OK? He doesn’t move!” she wails.
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Police said Luis Rodriguez was uncooperative when they tried to question him about domestic disturbance report in the parking lot of an Oklahoma movie theater. The man died in police custody.
Attorney Michael Brooks-Jimenez told reporters Tuesday that Luis did nothing wrong. Family members also appeared, but answered no questions.
“Luis committed no crime. He wasn’t armed. No gun. No knife. No weapon of any kind,” the lawyer said.
“But Luis is the one who lost his life that night,” he said.
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Attorney Michael Brooks-Jimenez, left, holds the hand of Nair Rodriguez, right, as he speaks to reporters Tuesday after releasing cellphone video showing Rodriguez’s husband, Luis, being held down by Oklahoma police. The man died in custody.
Moore Police Chief Jerry Stillings said last week that police responded to a domestic disturbance complaint and tried to question Rodriguez but he was uncooperative. He was pepper-sprayed and restrained with two sets of handcuffs, Stillings said.
The wife can be heard telling officers her husband is not violent and the trouble had been between her and the couple’s 19-year-old daughter. She admits to striking the girl.
The Oklahoma State of Investigation has taken over the investigation. An autopsy is pending.
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