911 calls from Camp East Montana reveal medical response to detainee deaths

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Medical staff at Camp East Montana initially said that two detainees had attempted to hang or strangle themselves in separate calls to El Paso 911 operators, according to new audio of the calls obtained by ABC-7.

In the first call from Jan. 3 of this year, the caller who does not identify himself tells the 911 operator, “He tried to hang himself, and then we put him in cuffs, and he kept going.”

As ABC-7 has reported, Geraldo Lunas Campos was the second detainee to die while in custody at the ICE facility on Fort Bliss property on Jan. 3, with his death ruled a homicide by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner…

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