Article 6RV17 Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’

Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’

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Sam Levin in Los Angeles
from US news | The Guardian on (#6RV17)

Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns

On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city's police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

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