Family members of Navy veteran who died after Northern California police officer pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes during a mental health crisis file federal lawsuit against the city of Antioch, its police chief and four police officers.
This Nov. 30, 2017 photo provided by Isabella Collins shows Navy veteran Angelo Quinto in Moffett Field in Mountainview, Calif. Family members of Quinto, who died after a Northern California police officer pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes during a mental health crisis, said Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, they filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Antioch, its police chief and four police officers.
An email from The Associated Press seeking comment from city officials was not immediately answered Monday. Quinto's mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, was hugging her son and he was calm when officers arrived at their home in Antioch, 45 miles east of San Francisco, according to the lawsuit. After about five minutes of the prone restraint, Quinto appeared to become totally unresponsive, the complaint said.
A video recorded by Quinto-Collins shows her son listless, with a bloodied face and his hands cuffed behind his back. She said she began recording after seeing her son’s eyes were rolled up in his head. “My office has been involved in many mental health cases down through the years and in those cases ... a little reassessment, a little de-escalation, reconsideration of where you are and who was involved really could have saved a person’s life,” he said.
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