Police beat to death a homeless, mentally ill, drug-addicted, 26 y.o. man; verdict includes $75k punitive damages, $1,250,000 for decedent’s pain and suffering, and non-economic damages awarded to father; does not include attorneys fees awarded separately.
54 y.o. schizophrenic man on meth killed by restraint asphyxia in county jail, on video; CFMG medical providers failed to intervene or treat face-down, motionless decedent; Willits officers negligently aggravated decedent’s paranoia; survived by brother.
39 y.o. cocaine-intoxicated man, in psychiatric distress and combative with paramedics and police, died from officers’ multiple tasing, blunt force, and compression asphyxia; survived by parents.
Video-recorded beating of 28 y.o. meth. addicted man, with multiple arrests for drug sales, who was captured by deputies after high speed pursuit over the Bay Bridge. Deputies beat Plaintiff with batons for minutes. Two deputies were fired and criminally charged with felonies. Plaintiff sustained multiple crushing hand fractures, concussion, and scalp lacerations from multiple head strikes by deputies’ batons. Plaintiff faced unrelated federal charges at time of settlement.
Police shooting of intoxicated, 35 y.o. man holding pistol-shaped water hose nozzle; police said he pointed it at them; toxicology showed .42% blood alcohol level, plus valium and THC; survived by mother and son.
Jail medical company failed to provide adequate care to drug-addicted Iraq War veteran with PTSD, who hanged himself in the Nassau County Jail. Survived by mother and brother. Jury assessed $890,000 compensatory damages and $7M punitives against medical provider; civil rights attorneys fees not included in verdict and awarded after trial.
26 y.o. woman died in jail while detoxing from heroin without proper medical care; survived by parents.
Healthy, 40 y.o. man had a bad reaction to illegal drugs he took while in jail, denied adequate medical care for his drug-related psychosis, sustained spinal and head trauma of unknown origin, then jailors dragged him to a safety cell when he could not walk due to a spine fracture, at the direction of a nurse employed by a private jail medical provider. He was left face-down, paralyzed, on the floor of a safety cell for six hours with an untreated subdural hematoma. Plaintiff sustained quadriplegia, requiring life-long care.
Jail death of 58 y.o. chronic alcoholic man, deprived of proper alcohol detoxification and confined in a restraint chair for 55 hours.
32 y.o. meth intoxicated man, who had threatened woman, was killed by police during restraint, including use of carotid hold and taser; body cameras did not show assaultive conduct by decedent that police claimed; survived by children.