2024-07-05 02:23:37
In a recent ruling, the Attorney General’s Office has confirmed that the cause of death was the improper use of equipment by a uniformed officer of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD).
The Attorney General’s Office has imposed a sanction of dismissal and disqualification for 18 years on patrolman Néstor Samuel Pacheco Niñoa member of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police and ESMAD, for having exercised excessive use of force.
The investigation revealed that During the protests on June 21, 2021, patrolman Pacheco Niño exceeded his legal powers and established limits, using lethal ammunition of their equipment to try to control the riots. This excessive use of force resulted in the death of a citizen, who received a fatal impact on the left side of his chest.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office determined that the citizen’s death was caused by blunt force trauma inflicted with one of the items in the officer’s possession during the riots. This fact confirmed the violation of the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality in the use of force.
As a result, the District Attorney’s Office of Judgment qualified thethe conduct of patrolman Pacheco Niño as very seriousacting with deceit, in its first instance ruling.
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