Body-camera footage capturing a Florida police officer pinning a teenager to the ground because he feared being beaten has become central evidence in a growing international outcry over the death of 19-year-old Mexican migrant Royer Perez-Jimenez in ICE custody two months later.
Perez-Jimenez, who spoke Tzotzil, a Mayan language from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, was arrested on 21 January 2026 by the Edgewater Police Department in Volusia County, Florida, after officers attempted to stop him for crossing traffic lanes on a scooter. He was charged with misdemeanour impersonation and misdemeanour resisting an officer, according to the arrest report obtained by Miami New Times.
