By: Ted Schmidt
A mentally ill man was killed in a struggle with the Richmond police in 2008. Police officers used pepper spray, shock weapons and batons to subdue the man. They also tasered him for over 72 seconds. Once the mentally ill man was handcuffed and put on the ground, they realized he had stopped breathing. The officers then took him to Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, where he was pronounced dead. The mentally ill man'd parents had filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, but the city of Richmond has agreed to settle by paying $1.5 million to the man's family.
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