Overview

• The district attorney’s office is reviewing surveillance and bystander videos and urging anyone with video or photos of the July 11 encounter to submit them.
• Seven Haverhill officers remain on paid administrative leave while investigators and the medical examiner examine the circumstances of Francis Gigliotti’s death.
• Autopsy results are expected to clarify whether positional asphyxia from the face-down restraint played a role in the 43-year-old’s death.
• Bystander footage depicts officers kneeling on Gigliotti’s neck and back as he pleaded for help during the restraint outside Bradford Seafood.
• Haverhill Police Department currently operates without body-worn cameras despite de-escalation training requirements and embedded mental health clinicians.