Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says

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2. I was about to post this story when I got a phone call.

You've posted only the first paragraph of the story. Here are the next three:

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”

A 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, Lunas Campos died following a struggle with detention staff, according to an eyewitness account and an internal ICE document reviewed by The Post.

The comment I was adding in the OP I'd written:

Campos did have a criminal record, but the does not excuse ICE killing him. According to the article, a witness told the Post that Campos was waiting in line for needed medications when guards tried to move him to a different housing unit. He resisted because he didn't have his medications yet, and "at least five" guards struggled with him and choked him, even though he told them again and again that he couldn't breathe.