A Uruguayan judge ruled that the police in that country must pay a $20,000 compensation to the family of a Cuban who was murdered during an operation in 2021.
The judge Carlos Aguirre argued that the police "departed from the regulatory framework" to act.
"It is an extreme measure that should not be used except when a person offers armed resistance to police action or endangers the physical integrity or life of police personnel in action or of third parties," the sentence mentions.
It cannot be argued that the police procedure was in accordance with the law. Therefore, the responsibility of the department involved emerges, due to the actions of its agent, for dereliction of duty, as their agent violated the police procedure.
The deceased's sister had filed a complaint against the Ministry of the Interior for killing her brother, a Cuban who lived in a boarding house on Paysandú Street.
On the day he was murdered, the man suffered a delirium attack and barricaded himself in a room at the boarding house with a pastry spatula and a bread knife. In addition, he threatened to set fire to the place, Montevideo Portal reports.
According to this media outlet, when the officers arrived, one of them fired non-lethal ammunition. In response, the deceased started running towards another police officer, which led one of the agents to draw his service weapon and shoot. The bullet went through the victim's left arm and entered his chest.
According to information provided at that time, the Cuban had arrived in the South American country very recently.
A prosecutor who began handling the case expressed her organization's intention to investigate the incident, "as any violent death is investigated," and three years later, the results arrived.
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