Fermin Arzu

How they died

Deadly force

Honduran immigrant and musician Arzu, drunk, sideswiped several cars in the late evening in the neighborhood of an off-duty officer. The officer emerged from his residence, in plainclothes but carrying pistol and badge. For unexplained reasons the officer fired five times and fatally wounded the driver. The officer was convicted of manslaughter, a ruling later overturned.

Why we remember them

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

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