Julio Jones

In the early hours of a November morning in 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, a 30-year-old Hispanic man named Julio Jones died after a confrontation with police. The events leading to his death began with a traffic stop around 1:00 a.m. near Martin Luther King and Lake Mead boulevards. An officer had pulled over Jones's Lexus because its headlights were off. During the stop, the officer noted that Jones was behaving erratically and asked him to get out of the car.

An altercation ensued, leading ...