Overview
- Police say callers reported erratic behavior on Friday, officers stopped Rios for suspected DUI, a use-of-force encounter followed, and he later died at a hospital.
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau is leading the use-of-force investigation, with the district attorney's Justice System Integrity Division monitoring.
- Officials have not released the cause of death, the officers' names, or any body-worn camera footage.
- Rios's family disputes the police account, describes him as non-violent, and cites witnesses who say officers pinned him as he said he could not breathe.
- Relatives say they have been denied access to his body and video, have hired an attorney, held a vigil, launched a GoFundMe, and posted fliers they say the city removed.