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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Man hospitalized for a month after being held on hot Phoenix pavement by cops

A man in Phoenix is suing the city's police department after officers held him against an extremely hot pavement, leaving him with third-degree burns.

Michael Kenyon, who was never charged with a crime relating to his July 6 encounter with Phoenix PD, spent more than a month hospitalized with burns to his face, arms, chest and legs, while chunks of flesh remain missing from above his knees.

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