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 Thursday, Jun 4th 2020| 417 A Mexican man appears to have been beaten and tortured to death by police after they caught him breaking lockdown rules by not wearing a facemask. Giovanni López, 30, was detained on May 4 in the Jalisco municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos for ignoring the town's preventive measures against the spread of the .Christian López told LatinUS, in a story published Wednesday, that Mayor Eduardo Cervantes offered him 200,000 Mexican pesos, or $9,000, if he did not go public with the footage that was recorded with his cellphone. 'The policemen came to carry out a raid to arrest people who did not have face masks. We were going to dinner and they came and assaulted us,' Christian said.'My brother was grabbed by like ten policemen, myself as well, but I managed to get away and he was being beaten, tortured, choked there. At that moment I started recording.'A cop is seen on the 96-second video telling Christian to shut the phone off while two cops tussled with Giovanni in the background.The aunt, who was also with López brother at the moment they were pulled over, argued with the cops and is heard shouting at them, 'you can't put him in [the truck] because he is not doing anything.'Subsequently, three officers shoved Giovanni into the rear seat of a police pickup truck.With the help of neighborhood residents, the family was able to talk to mayor Cervantes Aguilar on the phone, who promised that Giovanni would be released from custody on May 5 at 10am local time.When the aunt showed up at the police precinct, cops informed her that her nephew had been taken to a local hospital.  A death certificate that was shared by the family indicated Giovanni died at 10pm due to a traumatic brain injury.The aunt discovered her nephew had been shot in the leg and also displayed several bruises on his body when she disobeyed an order from a worker at the medical examiner's office and opened the body bag that contained Giovanni's remains.Christian said he feared for his life and had to change addresses. But his other families members did not move from their homes. Cervantes told reporters Wednesday that Giovanni was walking around challenging member of the National Guard to a fight.In a press release statement, the Mayor of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos also denied offering money to Giovanni's brother in exchange for not posting the video on social media. 'At no time did I offer 200,000 pesos or any amount in exchange for the silence of the family members, nor did I threaten them,' Cervantes said. 'On the contrary, from the beginning and until today I have instructed my municipal agencies to provide all the information to the State Prosecutor's Office.'In my municipal government we do not tolerate police brutality, abuse of authority, and much less serious violations of human rights, such as deprivation of life,' he added. The cops involved in beating Giovanni are still employed by the Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos Municipal Police. 'The police will have to explain what was the act of disturbance and what were the reasons for the use of force in their arrest,' said Jalisco state prosecutor Gerardo Octavio Solís on Wednesday. Giovanni's death caused outrage in Mexico just two days after another video went viral in which a police officer in Tijuana is seen pressing his foot on the neck of a a handcuffed Oliver López - of no relation to Giovanni - for 90 seconds before he died.The incident took place March 27 at a gas station after cops received reports of López hurling rocks at customers.  Another cop pinned his knee on López's legs while he pressed down his restrained hands. Moments later, a cop attempted to revive López while performing chest compressions.The cop, who placed his foot on López's neck, and the second law enforcement agent, who held him down against the ground, have been suspended pending an investigation.The Tijuana occurred two months before George Floyd, a black man, was killed in a similar hold in Minneapolis. Floyd was killed in Minnesota after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, placed his knee over the side of Floyd's neck while he was handcuffed and lying face down on May 25.Video of the incident also showed two other cops kneeling over Floyd's body as he said 'I can't breathe' and called for his mother after the police had arrested him for allegedly using a fake $20 bill at a deli.Chauvin and the three other officers - Tou Thao, Thomas K. Lane and J. Alexander Kueng - who were at the scene were fired. Chauvin has been charged with second degree murder, third degree murder and third degree manslaughter Thao, Lane and Kueng were each charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.Share what you thinkThe comments below have been moderated in advance.The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.Post comment to your Facebook TimelineBy posting your comment you agree to our .Submit CommentClearDo you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline?Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. NoYesDo you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline?Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usualWe will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. 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 Thursday, Jun 4th 2020| 417 A Mexican man appears to have been beaten and tortured to death by police after they caught him breaking lockdown rules by not wearing a facemask. Giovanni López, 30, was detained on May 4 in the Jalisco municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos for ignoring the town's preventive measures against the spread of the .Christian López told LatinUS, in a story published Wednesday, that Mayor Eduardo Cervantes offered him 200,000 Mexican pesos, or $9,000, if he did not go public with the footage that was recorded with his cellphone. 'The policemen came to carry...

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