Posted on 09/22/2020 12:53:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Blanca Briceno ... called the police one day in March to help her son, who was in the midst of a mental health crisis. But by the end, he’d been beaten and Tasered to death. At one point, she said, deputies grabbed her phone when she tried to film what was happening.
[C]coroner’s officials concluded that Briceno, 39, died of cardiopulmonary arrest, resulting from neck compression and restraint with a Taser. The death was ruled a homicide, although the designation doesn’t mean it was intentional or a crime.
The Briceno family last month filed a wrongful death claim, precursor to a lawsuit, against the Sheriff’s Department...
According to the autopsy report, investigators told coroner’s officials that when deputies responded to a call that Eric Briceno had assaulted his father, he “attacked the deputies” and resisted arrest.
Eric began showing symptoms of mental illness in high school and was diagnosed with mild schizophrenia, the family’s claim says. He self-medicated with street drugs and spent time in jail. Most recently, he was on probation and receiving treatment through the L.A. County Department of Mental Health.
On March 16, the claim said, Eric had an altercation with his father and left the home as his parents called 911. Deputies arrived and told the parents to call them back when their son returned, which they did.
Eric Briceno — 6 feet tall and weighing nearly 300 pounds, records show — was in his room sleeping when deputies arrived, his mother said. She said she told deputies she would call him out of his bedroom, because she didn’t want the deputies to go in. They went in anyway, she said, startling her son.
Eric Briceno was punched, pepper-sprayed and shot with a Taser seven or eight times, the autopsy report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If you knew anything about the mental health system one cannot do anything with an adult until there is a crisis. Ie danger to self. Danger to others or an inability to care for self (life-threatening)
I remember that horrible case in Fullerton, Ca.
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