{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Ukiah Police officers beat naked mentally ill man","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"April 2, 2021 —In the wake of a summer of protests against police brutality, two short videos from behind a shop window show four Ukiah police officers repeatedly punching a man whose sisters have identified as Gerardo Magdaleno. \r\nOne shows the nude man getting up off the ground and walking slowly toward an officer. The officer shouts at him repeatedly to get back on the ground. The video is blurry, but according to Ukiah police logs at that address, Officer Saul Perez responded a few minutes before 3pm.\r\nAnother video shows two officers holding the man down on his back by the arms and punching his head repeatedly while a third officer stands by, rolling up his sleeves. A fourth runs toward the scene and grabs his legs. They force him onto his belly and three officers hold him down while one continues to deliver short, sharp blows to his head. \r\nA third video, filmed from across the street, shows the nude man standing underneath the sign for Alderwood Apartments, about a car’s length from an officer. A minute and twelve seconds in, another officer approaches, walking fast. Both policemen raise their arms, pointing something at the man. Ten seconds later, the man falls over backward and the beating begins. \r\nMagdaleno, a schizophrenic military veteran, had been staying with his sister, Luna Magdaleno. She said her brother left around noon yesterday. He had been out of his medications for two days and taken LSD.\r\nShe found out what happened to him that afternoon, when someone sent her the videos. \r\n“He wasn’t being aggressive or disrespectful,” she said. “I understand that being nude in public is indecent exposure, but you can clearly tell that he’s in his own world at that moment. For the cops to come and do that thing to him the way that they did, instead of de-escalating the situation, they made it worse. They’re saying, in the report that they’re printing, that one of the cops was hurt, but he was injured obviously because they beat the fuck out of my...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}