Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez, a transgender woman, died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after being held in a privately operated detention center and was likely physically abused there, according an autopsy report. She died after several days of severe, untreated dehydration. Media reports don't state categorically whether she was booked, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system. Rodriguez' arrest status is further complicated by the fact she was an applicant for United States asylum. Fatal Encounters apologizes for the occasional use of birth names for transgender people. Police and news media often report the birth names instead of the real names, so we have to have both in our name field to prevent duplications in the dataset. It's disrespectful, and we're sorry about the necessity.

Why we remember them

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

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