Police killings
2013-2020

Inocencio Cardenas Jr.

Male, Hispanic

Date of the incident: 2/15/2016

Donna, Hidalgo, TX
200 South Seventh Street

She said she was only asking for help for the man she knew as Daniel, the man she had been in love with for more than five years, and she said she didn't think it would end the way it did. Several people who witnessed the arrest told The Monitor the officers shocked Cardenas with a stun gun at least three times before he stopped moving. Hernandez on Tuesday in a released statement said Cardenas became violent toward the officers, but neighbors deny the Donna man could even move after he was handcuffed and placed on his stomach. “There were three officers on top of him,” said one neighbor in Spanish. The woman declined to identify herself in fear of police retaliation. “He wasn't moving. You could just see him trying to move his head up.”