The private company that provides security guards to the Metropolitan Transit System in San Diego, including the armed guard who helped hold down a handcuffed Angel Zapata Hernandez in a fatal encounter in October 2019, is being sued in Sacramento federal court for a similar death.
That death, where a trio of guards handcuffed and restrained Mario Matthews inside Golden 1 Arena, occurred in July 2019, less than four months before Zapata Hernandez died on an MTS platform near the Santa Fe Depot.
In both cases, the men were held down for an extended period by security guards employed by Allied Universal â nine minutes in San Diego, some 20 minutes in Sacramento. And both Matthews and Zapata Hernandez had a guard kneeling on their necks as they lay handcuffed and face down â Matthews for four minutes, Zapata Hernandez for six minutes.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – District Attorney Summer Stephan on May 4 released a Midterm Report detailing 50 specific initiatives, programs and reforms that have been achieved under her leadership as elected DA thus far and a glimpse into what’s coming in the near future.
Halfway through her first term, the District Attorney’s report explains how she has cleared San Diego’s rape kit backlog, increased support and services for crime victims, tripled the prosecution of hate crimes, created multiple opportunities for people to be diverted away from jail and onto a better path, and established innovative programs focused on helping some of the most vulnerable in San Diego County those with mental illness, the elderly and our youth.
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The county will create a labor office to protect workplace pay and safety standards, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday.
In a 4-1 vote, with Supervisor Jim Desmond voting no, the board approved a plan to create an Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement.
“The COVID-19 pandemic I believe has highlighted the need for robust worker protections for essential workers,” Board Chair Nathan Fletcher said. “During the pandemic these workers kept showing up, putting themselves at risk to keep our economy going and while COVID-19 has brought worker issues to the forefront these issues are not new.”