Police brutality: Woman was subdued and died of suffocation in Tulum, Quintana Roo

This Saturday afternoon, in Tulum, Quintana Roo, an act of police brutality that ended the life of a woman, who moments before was subdued by state security elements.

According to local media versions, the municipal police officers who manned the patrol 9273 approached the woman, who was walking on the La Selva avenue, on the pretext that he was allegedly drunk.

At least four elements, three men and one woman, they threw her to the ground and applied excess force on the victim. Within a few minutes, she started screaming and saying that it is difficult to breathe by the weight that was on her.

However, neither the security personnel nor the witnesses, who only recorded the moment, did anything about it, so the cause of death was presumably from suffocation, as the officer kept his knee on her neck. As soon as he noticed that he was no longer moving, he got up and realized that his vital signs were gone.

Instead of calling an ambulance, the officers took the body and took her to another unit type truck with a cage with number 9267, to take her to the nearest health center for her medical evaluation.

Until now, Tulum municipality authorities have not expressed themselves in this regard. Therefore, some social network users urged them to investigate the case and not let the death of this woman go unpunished, whose name or age has not been identified.

It should be remembered that Quintana Roo state police has caused violence against women in the past November 9, 2020, when they repelled a feminist manifestation with firearms and excessive force against women who demanded justice.

After these events, on March 4, in compliance with an arrest warrant, detained two of the 10 police elements who were accused of the armed repression against journalists and citizens. Due to their participation in these events, they were sentenced to preventive detention.

The detainees were former police chiefs in Cancun: Carlos Lopez Tejeda, known as Cacquiring Lobo and director of the Municipal Police, and Roberto Molina, vice principal.

The use of force with gunshots and tear gas by Cancun police officers against a peaceful demonstration, which demanded justice in the femicide of Bianca Alejandrina Lorenzana Alvarado that occurred on November 7, 2020, begins to receive international convictions.

The Mexico Office of the UN High Commissioner in Mexico condemned the excessive use of force and weapons by the police of Cancún, Quintana Roo, and pointed out that it is essential to investigate the operative, since the authorities have informed that they gave the explicit instruction to the elements of the police not to use weapons in the protest.

Through its Twitter account, the agency noted that Attacks against journalists should also be investigated and expressed solidarity with all the people arrested and injured in these events.

“The UN-DH condemns the excessive use of force, including the use of firearms, by the municipal police in the demonstration that today (Monday, November 9) demanded justice for Bianca Alexis, in Cancun, Quintana Roo.”

“The authorities must respect, protect and promote the right to demonstrate. Lethal weapons must not be used in peaceful protests. The police must be governed by principles of use of force that include necessity, proportionality, prevention and accountability”, it stressed.