In video purportedly displaying the incident on Wednesday, two federal freeway law enforcement officials are seen making an attempt to restrain 38 year-old Genivaldo de Jesus Santos on the bottom.
The footage within the widely-shared video is edited, leaving gaps the place it’s unclear what occurred between the clips.
The subsequent clip exhibits officers allegedly placing Santos within the trunk of a Federal Freeway Police patrol SUV. The person seems to push again towards the officers’ efforts to get them fully into the automotive.
In one other clip, officers are proven utilizing the trunk of the police automotive to pin down the person’s legs whereas the automobile fills with an unknown white smoke or gasoline. The trapped man is heard screaming. In one other clip, the law enforcement officials are seen holding the person’s legs down whereas the gasoline dissipates, and after a few minute and a half, his legs seem to cease transferring. The officers are seen holding the trunk of the automobile closed.
Federal Freeway Police from the state of Sergipe stated in a press release that Santos “actively resisted” the officer’s method with “aggressiveness” and the law enforcement officials had to make use of “immobilization strategies and devices of decrease offensive potential” to comprise him.
The police say the person “fell unwell” whereas being transported again to the station and later died within the hospital.
The Sergipe’s coroner’s workplace (IML) stated in a press release that Santos died of asphyxiation however stated “it was not potential to ascertain the instant trigger” of it. IML stated it could conduct additional exams to ascertain “how the asphyxia course of occurred.”
Police have opened an inner investigation into the case.
CNN has reached out to the police for touch upon the incident and why the person was stopped.
