Posted on 04/26/2021 6:12:47 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Months before George Floyd died on the evening of Oct. 15, 2019, in San Diego downtown a 24-year-old Angel Zapata Hernandez died while handcuffed and restrained at the hands of two Metropolitan Transit Service security workers, one of whom knelt on his neck for six minutes and seven seconds.
There was no media outrage because he probably had the wrong skin color.
For weeks during the pandemic spring and summer of 2020, thousands of San Diego residents and BLM/Antifa members took to the streets around the county, protesting racial injustice and police misconduct in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Floyd’s death — with then-Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck — was captured on a now-famous cellphone video that, once shared on social media, set off weeks of protests around the world.
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System announced Monday that the family of a man who died after he was taken into custody near the Santa Fe Depot downtown will receive a $5.5 million settlement. MTS also released a video of the incident.
MTS Board Chair and County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced the settlement alongside Angel Zapata Hernandez’s family. Hernandez died while in the custody of an MTS Code Compliance Inspector and a Transit System Security employee in October of 2019.
“MTS acknowledges that serious mistakes were made and that Angel’s death never should have happened,” Fletcher said. “Angel’s life was precious and he should not have died. We can’t let this happen again.”
The MTS officer and security employee approached Hernandez, 24, who suffered from schizophrenia, October 15, 2019 after he was seen “acting erratically” near the railroad tracks, police said at the time. After the MTS officer confronted him, Hernandez ran for about 100 yards before he stopped and “submitted to handcuffing,” MTS said in a news release.
“Concerned with his size and movements, the MTS and TSS officers took him to the ground, where they placed him in a prone, face down position,” the news release said. “During restraint, Angel stopped breathing. Despite the administration of CPR, he never resumed breathing on his own and was declared dead at 9:28 p.m.”
The official cause of death was listed as a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest while in a prone restraint.
WARNING: The video below contains graphic images and language that viewers may find disturbing.
** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) ** At the very time, the protesters were filling the streets demanding change, police, and prosecutors were reviewing Zapata Hernandez’s death, which like Floyd’s was also captured on videotape in agonizing detail.
Let’s not run with this stuff. Doesn’t buy us anything. If it works for the media they’d run with it but browns and blacks don’t mix-they know it.
I don’t think we need to run with it, but it doesn’t help having it in our arsenal to point out their bias and hypocrisy.
I do think that has value.
It points out the absolute hypocrisy of the entire BLM movement though
Tony Tempa in Dallas, same story
Took years to even get the video released and the victim was a white male who called 911 because he was off his medication and had used cocaine.
The officers all walked on charges. They even had a quack inject the victim with a sedative and never checked his pupils or pulse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c-E_i8Q5G0
Where da $27 million at?
Yup. I remember that. Not much outcry there either. Even joking about him being asleep IIRC.
I do see they got shorted about $22 mill. Where’s the equity?
White lives don’t matter.
White and brown lives don’t matter.
Was there a blood analysis of this dude? “acting erratically” implies drug involvement. As evidence submitted in Floyd trial showed, he died of fentanyl. This white dude might have had the same problem — drug use also stops hearts and prevents them from restarting.
Tony Timpa, a white man, died the same way in Texas a few years ago. The cops started making fun of him after he passed out.
George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose not by somebody kneeling on him
“Let’s not run with this stuff. “
There must be thousands of videos of unpleasant cop encounters with citizens.
I’d say let’s run with a videl collection showing how cops get beat up and killed, and how various subduing techniques are commonly used, and how a person stopped by a cop can behave peacefully until surprisingly they turn violent.
Also it could contain excerpts from the cops’ training manuals.
Even severals points on that video at that link where they say “did we kill him” or “is he dead” without even checking his vital signs etc.
And all culture 'morality' was based on how people felt about Japan, Japanese culture and Japanese people living in the US.
To add insult to injury - democrats hyped up Japanese hatred of traditional Americans (whites, blacks, browns) by reminding Japanese that the US nuked two of their cities and killed thousands? Newspapers ran with weekly 'retrospectives' on ways Japanese citizens were treated badly.
As a result - Japanese citizens started faking hate crimes to stoke the fires of hatred and pity. Now tell me DIRTYSECRET - would YOU want us to ignore crimes against people who weren't Japanese? Our world - our country - is insane during this time... but surely you can see past the insanity.
“What if YOU lived in a culture where the ONLY crimes that mattered were ones committed against people who were Japanese?”
Are you saying our ‘Japanese’ are now our blacks? Are you further saying that blacks might be faking hate crimes?
I don’t know about that but justice is certainly not equal now.
The media is giving blacks enormous support to make their case. The jury is we voters.
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
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