Attorneys for the family of a Bay Area Navy veteran who died while police restrained him are asking the attorney general's office to review the Contra Costa County district attorney's decision not to criminally charge the four officers involved in the December 2020 death.
Tuesday, Antioch police held a press conference about a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Navy veteran who died after officers allegedly placed him in an illegal chokehold.The office of California's attorney general said Wednesday it will review a decision by a San Francisco Bay Area district attorney not to pursue homicide charges against police officers who restrained a prone man and placed a knee on his neck in 2020.
Attorney General Rob Bonta's office did not provide further comment. Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said through a spokesperson that a copy of the public report on the death of Angelo Quinto will be sent to the California Department of Justice. Attorneys for Quinto's family requested the review after Becton concluded Friday that Antioch police officers used reasonable force in engaging with the Navy veteran, 30, on the night of Dec. 23, 2020.Quinto's death is among several in recent years prompting lawmakers in multiple states to call for new methods in how law enforcement officers interact with people in a mental health crisis.
Quinto's family called 911 on Dec. 23 for help calming him down during a bout of paranoia, the result of an assault that left him with a traumatic brain injury. They said in their federal lawsuit that officers placed a knee on Quinto's neck - in the manner that killed Minneapolis man George Floyd - and that the cause of death was asphyxiation. He was rushed to the hospital and died Dec. 26.
"It is hard to even fathom how the district attorney's office can say that fentanyl was a contributing factor in his death, when the fact is it was given to him in a therapeutic, clinical way," said John Burris, one of his attorneys, at a Wednesday rally to update supporters on the case.
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