Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement and give him third-degree burns in July footage

Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns

On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

  • Snowclone@lemmy.world
    181·
    1 month ago

    There are people who fired on police breaking into their home and won on sale defense.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Even Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend got acquitted after doing so. It does happen. Though I agree with you that it’s likely a death sentence to defend yourself from police, no matter how justified.