Recently, a 26-year-old father died while California cops knelt on his back, causing his death.
Mario Gonzales died on April 19th with Alameda police officers trying to restrain him.
His brother comments on the situation and calls the actions “unnecessary and unprofessional,” when body camera footage was released to the general public. The police had gotten to Gonzales after receiving numerous phone calls.
A lawyer that is representing the Gonzales family slams a police report which claim the man had a medical emergency at the time the police were kneeling on his back.
The lawyer explains that the “medical emergency” is considered misinformation, comparing the situation at hand like the George Floyd case that happened last March and its case wrapped up just recently.
They comment further, asking why police force was necessary in the first place, saying that his death was “completely avoidable.. Drunk guy in a park doesn’t equal a capital sentence.”
The cops were called to the scene around 10:45 am, claiming Gonzales had a medical emergency where they started to perform lifesaving procedures. It is unclear as to what his medical emergency was, but he lost his pulse while on the scene. His family says that he didn’t suffer any medical conditions.
The officers involved are now put on paid leave, and the incident is being investigated by the sheriff’s office and district attorney.
Edith Gonzales, mother of Mario Gonzales brings light to the situation and confusion of Gonzalez’ son. Her grandson asks her, “Mami, mami, my papi passed away? My papi died? My papi died?” Which in response she tells the public “How can I say that? Somebody kill him?”
In the call, someone describes Gonzales as a man who didn’t have a mask on, and when the caller went outside, he was “not making any sense. I don’t know what to do. It seems like he’s tweaking but he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.”
Another call described him as a man in the park with “two Walgreens baskets with some alcohol bottles that it looks like he’s breaking the security tags off.”
Officers told Gonzales that he would have to offer them identification or else they would have to take him. They tell him not to resist and to relax, in which he says that he “didn’t do nothing. Please stop.” Even with this plead, the offices take him to his knees, putting pressure on his back with their own knees.