Justice for Xavier
Watch this bodycam video of a police officer in El Paso responding to a 30-year-old with a mental-health crisis on a bridge above a highway in an apparent suicide attempt on July 13, 2025 : This resulted in the death of Xavier G Hernandez. We should be asking why. The autopsy identified compression of his chest during the restraint as the cause of death. There are obvious parallels to George Floyd; how officers recognize the risks of positional restraint, when force must be reduced, and how quickly medical assistance is provided. The case will be presented to an El Paso…