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Family of Colombian man killed by police demand justice

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Bogota, Sep 16 (EFE).- The family of a Colombian man who died at the hands of police laid him to rest here Wednesday with a call for justice.Javier Ordoñez, a 46-year-old attorney and father of two young children, perished a week ago after two police officers tased him repeatedly as he pleaded for his life in an incident caught on video that spurred days of protest. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: A FUNERAL OF JAVIER ORDÓÑEZ, AN ATTORNEY WHO WAS KILLED BY THE POLICE, IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.SOUND BITE: ELBIA BERMÚDEZ, AUNT OF THE VICTIM (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: I ask for peace and I ask that this serve to modify some laws that are badly made, that we change something, that we learn a lesson from what happened and that it doesn't happen again.

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