DA’s Office Keeps Mum On Circumstances Leading To Last Minute Decision To Charge; Defense Attorney For One Officer Calls Decision “A Blatantly Political Prosecution”
By Larry Freeman
APD officers ask Mario Gonzalez, who would later die in their custody, to “please keep your hands out of your pockets” as they try to get him to show i.d. and determine his situation before a protracted struggle to detain him begins, resulting in their use of prone restraint to attempt to subdue him.
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Communications Bureau (ACDACB ) said in an email that “the three (Alameda Police Officer) defendants are sch...
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