Osiel Santana

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Hallucinating from a potent batch of homemade jimson tea, Cuban immigrant Santana struggled with officers trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct. Santana was in police custody for a couple of hours, with back-and-forth attempts at getting him medical attention, but apparently never booked. Police said he died from the drug. Family said he died of a severe beating at police hands, a possibility consistent with previous incidents in Hialeah.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Osiel Santana, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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