Joseph Sheldon Hutcheson

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Hutcheson ran into the lobby of a jail asking for help because his wife was out to kill him. Sheriff's officers were witnessed to have put a knee on his body and on his neck, despite Hutcheson saying that he couldn't breath. He died shortly thereafter. He'd been incarcerated recently for drugs, but witnesses say that he was not aggressive toward officers at all.

Why we remember them

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

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