Video shows US police piling on man who died in mental hospital

DISTURBING video footage released yesterday shows the death of a 28-year-old man as he was being admitted to a US mental hospital, where he was forcibly restrained by as many as 10 police officers and hospital security guards.

Irvo Otieno’s March 6 death in Virginia has already drawn murder charges against the officers and guards involved, thrusting the spotlight back on US law enforcement brutality and the treatment of mental health patients in particular.