Overview
- Surveillance and bystander videos show SSC officers subduing, beating and dragging 21-year-old Erick Omar Chávez Díaz during a Nov. 4 detention in Venustiano Carranza before he was found dead two days later.
- The SSC said it identified the officers through CCTV review and detained them in coordination with the city prosecutor’s office.
- Authorities removed the sector director responsible for supervising the officers as an administrative measure.
- At least three officers have been formally linked to trial on qualified homicide charges and are being held at Reclusorio Oriente.
- Officials said investigations continue and pledged to work with human rights mechanisms on reparations, while new footage points to possible involvement of up to five officers and the motive for the detention remains unclear.