Demetrius T. Nelson

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Nelson and his girlfriend had an overheated car. He pulled into a shopping complex parking lot and accidently lost the radiator cap. An intense argument broke out between the two, which attracted the center's security and then pulled in a deputy. Nelson argued and physically fought the deputy, was Tased five times and put into leg irons, went into the "respiratory arrest" in back of the patrol car, and died.

Why we remember them

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

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