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Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 08:17 PM Apr 2021

Bodycam video shows moments leading to Mario Gonzalez's death while in Alameda police custody

Source: KRON news

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KRON) — The City of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of a Bay Area man who died during an arrest while in Alameda police custody.

Family demands answers after Oakland man dies in police custody
26-year-old Mario Arenales Gonzalez died while in the custody of three responding officers on the morning of April 19, 2021.

3 police officers on leave after Oakland man dies in custody
Warning: Video contains graphic images/language; viewer discretion advised

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bodycam-video-shows-alameda-officer-kneeling-on-mario-gonzalezs-neck-before-he-died-family-says/amp/



It is very disturbing
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Bodycam video shows moments leading to Mario Gonzalez's death while in Alameda police custody (Original Post) Midnightwalk Apr 2021 OP
Cops should not be required to respond to episodes of mental illness. From what I can see, these Martin68 Apr 2021 #1
Absolutely no need for this Midnightwalk Apr 2021 #2
Failure, Losers Roy Rolling Apr 2021 #3
The caller reported Jilly_in_VA Apr 2021 #4

Martin68

(22,671 posts)
1. Cops should not be required to respond to episodes of mental illness. From what I can see, these
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 10:44 PM
Apr 2021

guys did their best to handcuff Mario and bring him in for his own good. Mario was incoherent and confused. They endlessly asked him to put his hans behind his back so they could cuff him. If nothing else, this is video proof of the need for mental health professionals to be involved in the process, or actually in charge of it. I identified with the cops here, trying their best to talk him down, gain his trust, and get his cooperation. Who could have done a better job, other than mental health professional?

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
2. Absolutely no need for this
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 11:54 PM
Apr 2021

Last edited Wed Apr 28, 2021, 12:45 PM - Edit history (2)

The man is obviously impaired somehow but isn’t going anywhere. There were plenty of cops to manage the situation.

He wasn’t resisting as in trying to get away. He didn’t get his arms behind his back enough to be cuffed.

They got him into a prone position with his chest down and knee and weight on his back. He was howling in either pain or fear as the cops comment that he is kicking his legs and trying to lift his head. Then they notice he has no pulse and start cpr.

The guy was messed up from the start. He looked intoxicated but also hunched over like he was sick. They could have sat him down and waited for EMT.

I see nothing so absolutely urgent that they had to force him on his chest trying to cuff him.

I saw nothing like I would call resistance. I know they can charge you with resisting arrest for just about anything but there is a huge difference between assaulting officers and not being in the words of doctor fowler “perfectly compliant”

His struggle against the pain and inability breathe is again misinterpreted as resistance right up to the moment they notice he had no pulse. Just as George Floyds attempts to breathe and even death rattle were called resistance in that trial.

What was so urgent about getting him cuffed right that minute that makes his death necessary? I’m not so interested in the criminal culpability of the police. Why couldn’t they have acted differently so no one died.

They might have even followed procedure. I don’t see how that makes it better

Edit to clarify that it’s not that I don’t care about the culpability but that argument will be made on its own with lots of justified support. I want to expand it to of the question of how do we stop so many people getting killed by police without the dodge of but procedure said they could.

Roy Rolling

(6,853 posts)
3. Failure, Losers
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 06:28 AM
Apr 2021

Killing a suspect is a failure to perform the job of policing—to protect and serve.

These rogue cops are failures. They are losers for being unable to perform the high standards necessary to be a law enforcement officer.

Other people who defend guilty losers are worse.

Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
4. The caller reported
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 11:18 AM
Apr 2021

a man "standing near her home and talking to himself." How is this even a crime, let alone a CAPITAL CRIME? Charge these cops with murder, all of them.

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