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Police in California are under fire over the death of a Latino man who was pinned to the ground for more than five minutes in a video-recorded arrest.
The death in Alameda unfolded the same day a jury in Minneapolis began deliberating in the George Floyd case.
Autopsy findings on the cause of death have not been released, but the family of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez blamed police, accusing them on Tuesday of using excessive force and escalating what should have been a minor encounter with the unarmed man. The police killed my brother in the same manner they killed George Floyd, Gerardo Gonzalez said.
Family denounces police custody death of man in California
OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DON THOMPSON, Associated Press
April 29, 2021
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1of5Jerry Gonzalez, right, the youngest brother of Mario Gonzalez, speaks about his brother s death in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Police in Alameda, California, are under fire over the death of a Hispanic man who was pinned to the ground face down for more than five minutes on the same day a jury in Minneapolis began deliberating in the George Floyd case.Josh Edelson/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5Jerry Gonzalez, the youngest brother of Mario Gonzalez, speaks about his brother s death in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Police in Alameda, California, are under fire over the death of a Hispanic man who was pinned to the ground face down for more than five minutes on the same day a jury in Minneapolis began deliberating in the George Floyd case.Josh Edelson/APShow MoreShow Less
Experts on deadly Alameda struggle: Officers trained not to keep hand-cuffed people face down
By Olga R. Rodriguez and Don Thompson
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KTVU s Henry Lee reports.
ALAMEDA, Calif. - The family of an unarmed 26-year-old Alameda man is struggling to understand how a minor confrontation with police led to his death on the same day a jury in Minneapolis began considering similar circumstances in the George Floyd case, while experts said that officers have long been trained not to handcuff people, especially when they are heavy or intoxicated, face-down on the ground.
Alameda police responded to a park on April 19 to check reports that Mario Gonzalez was acting strangely and appeared to be breaking security tags off of alcohol bottles that he had in two drugstore baskets.