Lawyers for the family of a Virginia man who died in police custody say the Department of Justice should be involved in the case.
Ten people, including seven Henrico County sheriff’s deputies, have been charged with second-degree murder for the March 6 death of 28-year-old Irvo Noel Otieno.
“You’ve got those two jurisdictions, and it’s a story—as you can see—it’s a continuum of abuse that went on, and it has to be fully addressed in that manner,” attorney Mark Krudys said at a news conference on March 16, speaking about how Otieno’s journey began in Henrico County, Virginia, and ended at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County, Virginia….