LAPD releases video of officers beating handcuffed jail inmate who later died

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Set us as preferred LAPD officials on Friday released security camera footage showing a group of officers piling on top of a man and beating him before he died in a San Fernando Valley jail cell, one of two recent incidents that prompted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to call for an independent review of police killings of people in mental distress.A police spokesperson said officers at Van Nuys Regional Jail used force on Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz, 58, after he was uncooperative and spit on them.The footage released by the LAPD showed officers converge on Hoyos-Munoz several times after he behaved erratically in his cell in the early morning hours of July 15.He was struck several times while pinned down and in handcuffs.The officers placed a hood over Hoyos-Munoz’s head after he spit on them, the LAPD spokesperson said, and he was left with the covering on while he lay prone with his hands behind his back.The Los Angeles Police Department released a video that shows officers at the Valley jail manhandle an uncooperative inmate who died after he was left handcuffed with a bag over his head while laying prone on the bunk in his cell.After leaving the cell, officers returned a short time later to find Hoyos-Munoz unconscious and not breathing, the spokesman said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.Shortly after police released the footage of the beating and a separate fatal shooting in Harvard Heights, the mayor issued a statement calling the videos “incredibly difficult to watch.”“Decades of disinvestment in community-based mental and behavioral health services have left too many Angelenos without access to timely and appropriate care, increasing the likelihood that people in crisis will come into contact with law enforcement,” Bass said.“LAPD officers do not enter the force to become first responders to mental health...