7 Virginia Deputies Charged with Murder of Inmate at Mental Hospital.

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Seven Virginia sheriff's deputies have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Irvo Otieno, a Black man with a history of mental illness who died after the officers smothered him as he lay on the ground in handcuffs and leg shackles at a hospital. The deputies got on top of a handcuffed and shackled Otieno, causing him to die from asphyxiation. His family says he was deprived of medication while in jail that he needed for his mental illness.
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