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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Three police officers are on administrative leave while officials investigate the death of a man outside an Oklahoma movie theater.
Forty-four-year-old Luis Rodriguez died after an altercation with officers early Saturday morning in a parking lot at a theater in the central Oklahoma city of Moore.
Rodriguez's wife says her husband was chasing her after she got into a fight with her daughter when officers attempted to question him.
Moore Police Chief Jerry Stillings says Rodriguez became uncooperative and was pepper-sprayed and handcuffed. That's when his wife says police beat him and he died.
Stillings says a cellphone video of the incident doesn't show anything inappropriate.
A police spokesman says whether other force including kicking took place is under investigation. Autopsy results are pending.
The officers have not been identified.
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