At least a dozen people died in Nevada from 2012 to 2021 during or shortly after encounters with police that did not involve a gun.
This family photo from the 2000s shows Glenn Ybanez. The former Army combat medic is one of at least a dozen people who died in Nevada from 2012 through 2021 during or shortly after encounters with police that did not involve a gun, an investigation by The Associated Press and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University found.
With attention largely focused on reducing police shooting deaths, deaths after less-lethal force often escape the kind of public scrutiny that can lead to reforms. They are also less clear-cut than shootings, in part because they often involve a mental health or drug-induced crisis. Attorneys who represent the deceased and their families say that allows other cause-of-death theories to obscure police involvement in someone’s death.
How often these methods prove lethal is “a mystery,” said Michael White, a criminology and criminal justice professor at Arizona State University. To identify non-shooting deaths resulting from police encounters, reporters read thousands of pages of court documents and other reports obtained through public records requests to local and county law enforcement agencies, district attorneys’ offices and Nevada’s two largest medical examiners’ offices. Other leads came from local news reports and crowdsourced lists of deaths allegedly caused by police.
Guillory, a 37-year-old Black man who had served in the U.S. Army and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia, was taken to the hospital and died the next day. His autopsy report said the cause of death was a blood clot due to recent cocaine use.
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