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A 26-year-old California man died while he was in police custody on April 19.
Mario Gonzalez died after officers in Alameda County pinned him to the ground, facedown, for five minutes. Police initially said a physical altercation ensued after a medical emergency, but Gonzalez's family lawyer called that "misinformation."
The body camera footage, released Tuesday, showed Gonzalez on the ground with multiple officers holding his hands behind his back while putting their weight on him. He appeared to be wheezing while officers told him to “please stop fighting us.”
After about five minutes, an officer said to the other two on-scene, “We have no weight on his chest,” and the officer told another to remove his knee from his back as he placed it there.