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Wrongful death claim accuses police of killing Navy vet by kneeling on his neck
“We see not only violations of his civil rights but also violations against the rights of his mother and sister’s, who saw what happened to him.”
Recorded on cellphone video giving CPR to a Navy veteran in police custody, California police officers have been accused in a wrongful death claim of causing the handcuffed man’s death by kneeling on the back of his neck for nearly five minutes.
On December 23, 2020, the family of Angelo Quinto called the police because the 30-year-old Navy vet was suffering a mental health crisis. According to Quinto’s mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, she had been sitting on the floor and hugging Quinto against her chest in an effort to calm him down when Antioch Police officers arrived.