The Alameda County District Attorney's Office on Thursday determined there would be no charges against the officers involved in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, according to the officers' attorney.
showing that "the officers were applying pressure to [Mario’s] torso and legs with at least some of the weight of their bodies" and the "stress of the altercation and restraint" contributed to his death, along with his obesity, alcoholism, and recent use of methamphetamine.The family of Mario Gonzalez has responded to the released autopsy. Gonzalez's brother says he was "wrongfully murdered by the Alameda Police Department.
Body camera footage showed McKinley speaking to Gonzalez for nine minutes before he, Fisher and Leahy restrained him face-down on the ground for five minutes. Gonzalez went limp while being restrained and didn’t have a pulse when he arrived at Alameda Hospital, according to the Federal civil rights lawsuits have been filed separately on behalf of Gonzalez's mother and son that allege the three officers "used excessive force against , and unjustified deadly force that included a suffocating restraint" that caused the 26-year-old chef and father to die from restraint asphyxia.
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