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\r\n<\/p>\r\nOMAHA, Nebraska — For a third year, they walked.\r\n
<\/p>\r\nThey gathered outside a Greyhound bus station in this Nebraska city, shared words about a 29-year-old Rosebud Lakota and Kiowa man who died at the hands of police in June 2017, and then marched along the route the man took that day four years ago.\r\n
<\/p>\r\nAnd even though it\u2019s been four years since Zachary Bear Heels died after being shocked 12 times by a Taser and punched 13 times in the head by Omaha police, they shared tears.\r\n
<\/p>\r\n\u201cI brought his stuff today, because I want everybody to see what the Omaha police department did to my son,\u201d said Renita Chalepah, Bear Heels\u2019 mother. \u201cHis clothes, his shoes, his hat. How would they like that if I did that to them?\u201d\r\n
<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\nNearly 40 people walked nearly five miles Saturday across Omaha on a day that reached 91 degrees. They said prayers, listened to drummers and paid homage to Bear Heels underneath a billboard first erected last year to honor him near the place where he died.\r\n <\/p>\r\nAnd they danced.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\u201cZachary was a very loving son, grandson, brother, uncle,\u201d Chalepah said. \u201cHe touched a lot of hearts in our family, especially our elders like my mother.\u201d\r\n <\/p>\r\nOn June 5, 2017, Bear Heels was traveling from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota back to his home in Oklahoma City when he was kicked off the bus in Omaha for acting erratically. His relatives have said he suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and didn\u2019t take his medication that day.\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\nOfficers Scotty Payne, Ryan McClarty, Jennifer Strudl and Makyla Mead were called to the Bucky\u2019s Convenience Store at 60th and Center streets. When they arrived, the officers attempted to put Bear Heels in a police cruiser, but he resisted and a struggled ensued.\r\n <\/p>\r\nThe officers managed to get Bear Heels\u2019 hands cuffed behind his back and put him on the ground, sitting with his back against the rear passenger tire of the cruiser. But then Payne began shocking the handcuffed Bear Heels, who was demonstrating no threat to the officers, with his Taser gun.\r\n <\/p>\r\nAt that point, Bear Heels managed to pull a wrist out of one of the cuffs by breaking his hand, and McClarty began punching him in the head and face and pulling on his hair. Eventually, other officers arrived on the scene, and the officers managed to zip-tie Bear Heels\u2019 hands behind his back and place him face-down on the pavement.\r\n <\/p>\r\nTwo officers took turns putting their full weight on Bear Heels\u2019 back, and when the officers turned him over to put him on a gurney, Bear Heels was dead.\r\n <\/p>![\"zacharybearheelsmarch\"](\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/07\/zacharybearheelsmarch-scaled.jpg\")
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