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And so it’s now time to translate our words into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]Councilmember John Knox White joined his colleagues in offering condolences to Gonzalez’s family, but also pressed the council to take swift action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to acknowledge the loss of Mario Gonzalez to his family,” Knox White said. “Even though I know we’re speaking broader than that tonight, I’m very aware, and holding close, the call for true justice. Condolences, etc., are not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Assistant City Manager Gerry Beaudin asked the community to remain patient, stressing that some of the proposals will take time to implement “to make sure that we do it in a way that we’re setting ourselves up for success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only consistent dissent on all three proposals came from Councilmember Trish Herrera Spencer, who argued that the city was already considering many of the reforms on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that under the purview of the city manager’s current job description that he is able to do some of this stuff without additional direction from us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, Alameda residents and other supporters of police reform contributed a bevy of public comment and emails, mostly lambasting the actions of the officers involved in Gonzalez’s death and underscoring the need for policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one email, Alameda residents Brett Webb and Amanda Cooper said the city failed to reform its Police Department after a notorious incident last year, caught on camera, in which officers violently pinned down Mali Watkins, a Black resident, after they found him dancing on the street near his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that incident, “people spoke at City Council, urging decisive action to make sure something worse didn’t happen. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Alameda City Council plans to meet for a \u003ca href=\"https://legistar1.granicus.com/alameda/meetings/2021/5/5435_A_City_Council_21-05-08_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\">special session\u003c/a> on Saturday to consider immediate policing reforms following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> last month. Gonzalez, a 26-year-old Oakland man, stopped breathing after several Alameda police officers held him face-down on the ground for roughly five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed reforms include creating a civilian police oversight board, revising the department's use-of-force policies and requiring a \"non-police response\" to certain types of 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An immediate step that can be taken is a process for civilian oversight of police actions that involve physical contact, and random checks of body camera video, just to make sure we have some eyes, a second set of review,\" said Councilmember John Knox White, who is also pushing for the city to pilot a mental health response unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Thomas, former police tactical trainer and professor of forensic studies\"]'I don't understand why they felt compelled to engage [Gonzalez] to the point where they had to handcuff him and control. Because it makes no sense'[/pullquote]Alameda police have been under intense national scrutiny since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">body camera footage\u003c/a> was released last week showing two officers confronting Gonzalez in a small city park on April 19. They were responding to 911 calls from neighbors who said he was acting disoriented and appeared to be breaking security tags off alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife,\" one of the callers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident begins calmly, but after the officers' make repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez's full name or ID, they grab him, never telling him he's under arrest. When Gonzalez resists being handcuffed, two officers take him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They handcuff Gonzalez, holding him down for roughly five minutes, as he continues to struggle, at which point he appears to lose consciousness and stops breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many social justice activists and policing experts alike have lambasted the officers, accusing them of unnecessarily escalating a situation that did not necessitate the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's family and their supporters are now pushing for the officers to be charged with murder, drawing comparisons to the death of George Floyd, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">murdered\u003c/a> last May by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since Gonzalez's death, multiple separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't understand why they felt compelled to engage [Gonzalez] to the point where they had to handcuff him and control. Because it makes no sense,\" said David Thomas, a professor of forensic studies at Florida Gulf Coast University and former police tactical trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they were determined that they were going to detain him in order to get to that point, to find out who he was,\" he said. \"I don't see that as being a requirement if the person's not a threat to anybody. And if you just need him to move along, why don't you have that conversation and ask?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11871345 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48857_044_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Thomas also noted that the officers erred in failing to tell Gonzalez why they were detaining him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to clarify,\" he said. \"What is your purpose? And that was never stated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, Thomas said, after the officers forced Gonzalez to the ground, they should have immediately tried to move him into a sitting position to ensure he was able to properly breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for the officers said they did nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers used the lowest degree of force possible given the intensity of Mr. Gonzalez's efforts to evade their grasp,\" Alison Berry Wilkinson told \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1387540533497634820\">KTVU\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers had to act to ensure the safety of Gonzalez because he appeared intoxicated and disoriented and they were concerned he would fall if left there, Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was never a point in time where any officer's knee was on Mr. Gonzalez's neck. Nor was there a time when they were pressing down hard enough on his body to cause him not to breathe,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department has been no stranger to controversy. It came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> the following month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death has drawn renewed attention to a California bill that would bar police from applying pressure or body weight to a restrained person’s neck, torso or back, or laying them face up or face down without proper monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872840\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Gonzalez's mother, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB490\">Assembly Bill 490\u003c/a>, authored by Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson, a former police officer, would outlaw techniques that create a substantial risk of what's known as \"positional asphyxia\" — detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally. The legislation follows California's \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1196\">recent ban\u003c/a> on police use of carotid restraints or choke holds, a measure also introduced by Gipson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This does not mean that a police officer can no longer restrain anyone when they need to for public safety, but it would mean that they cannot keep anyone from breathing/losing oxygen when restraining them,\" Gipson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association has called the language in the new bill overly broad, arguing that violations would be too difficult to judge and that an all-out ban would leave officers fewer options for handling violent suspects, making them more likely to use batons or stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. Williams Jr., a police tactics expert who spent nearly 30 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, said that while most departments already have policies on this, those guidelines need to be much clearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: the Alameda Police Department's \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/police/alameda-police-department-policy-manual-11022020.pdf\">policy manual\u003c/a> states that a suspect \"shall not be placed on his/her stomach for an extended period, as this could reduce the person’s ability to breathe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The policy needs to be more specific and directed,\" Williams said. \"Once he or she is handcuffed, they are to be immediately removed from the prone position, put on their side and if possible sat up.\" Otherwise, he said, “You leave everything to subjective interpretation: What may be short to you may be long to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]From a medical standpoint, any restriction of oxygen or blood flow is too long, said UCSF neurologist Nicole Rosendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no kind of safe, defined ways to have someone in a position like this and reduce oxygen,\" she said. \"There’s no way to predict who might be at higher risk or lower risk of complications from this positioning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death also rekindles the longstanding national debate – amplified in the wake of George Floyd's murder — over which kinds of responders are best suited to handle various types of non-emergency situations, and when police officers should not be involved. These are among the heated questions the Alameda City Council intends to take up this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a tragic and avoidable incident that once again demonstrates the danger of involving law enforcement and interactions with people experiencing mental health crises and substance-use issues,\" said Jennifer Stark, an attorney with Disability Rights California, one of the many groups that support reallocating resources to community service agencies and enlisting them to respond to certain non-violent calls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a violent person. There were no safety issues raised. There were some concerns potentially about mental health issues. And this is one of those cases where it would have been perfectly appropriate to involve mental health professionals to come in to speak with Mario and to de-escalate the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no crisis,\" she added, \"until the law enforcement got involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Fenn, Alameda's interim police chief, said he agrees on the need to reexamine this dynamic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's going to be a really important question going forward,\" Fenn said. \"Who are the appropriate responders?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can get complicated fast, he added, noting that in this case, Gonzalez seemed to be acting erratically and could have become potentially dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, would properly trained, non-sworn people be the best to respond to this? Possibly,\" he said. \"Would they be in some level of danger? Again, possibly. 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And that was never stated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, Thomas said, after the officers forced Gonzalez to the ground, they should have immediately tried to move him into a sitting position to ensure he was able to properly breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for the officers said they did nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers used the lowest degree of force possible given the intensity of Mr. Gonzalez's efforts to evade their grasp,\" Alison Berry Wilkinson told \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1387540533497634820\">KTVU\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers had to act to ensure the safety of Gonzalez because he appeared intoxicated and disoriented and they were concerned he would fall if left there, Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was never a point in time where any officer's knee was on Mr. Gonzalez's neck. Nor was there a time when they were pressing down hard enough on his body to cause him not to breathe,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department has been no stranger to controversy. It came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> the following month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death has drawn renewed attention to a California bill that would bar police from applying pressure or body weight to a restrained person’s neck, torso or back, or laying them face up or face down without proper monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872840\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Gonzalez's mother, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB490\">Assembly Bill 490\u003c/a>, authored by Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson, a former police officer, would outlaw techniques that create a substantial risk of what's known as \"positional asphyxia\" — detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally. The legislation follows California's \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1196\">recent ban\u003c/a> on police use of carotid restraints or choke holds, a measure also introduced by Gipson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This does not mean that a police officer can no longer restrain anyone when they need to for public safety, but it would mean that they cannot keep anyone from breathing/losing oxygen when restraining them,\" Gipson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association has called the language in the new bill overly broad, arguing that violations would be too difficult to judge and that an all-out ban would leave officers fewer options for handling violent suspects, making them more likely to use batons or stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From a medical standpoint, any restriction of oxygen or blood flow is too long, said UCSF neurologist Nicole Rosendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no kind of safe, defined ways to have someone in a position like this and reduce oxygen,\" she said. \"There’s no way to predict who might be at higher risk or lower risk of complications from this positioning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death also rekindles the longstanding national debate – amplified in the wake of George Floyd's murder — over which kinds of responders are best suited to handle various types of non-emergency situations, and when police officers should not be involved. These are among the heated questions the Alameda City Council intends to take up this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a tragic and avoidable incident that once again demonstrates the danger of involving law enforcement and interactions with people experiencing mental health crises and substance-use issues,\" said Jennifer Stark, an attorney with Disability Rights California, one of the many groups that support reallocating resources to community service agencies and enlisting them to respond to certain non-violent calls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a violent person. There were no safety issues raised. There were some concerns potentially about mental health issues. And this is one of those cases where it would have been perfectly appropriate to involve mental health professionals to come in to speak with Mario and to de-escalate the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no crisis,\" she added, \"until the law enforcement got involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Fenn, Alameda's interim police chief, said he agrees on the need to reexamine this dynamic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's going to be a really important question going forward,\" Fenn said. \"Who are the appropriate responders?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can get complicated fast, he added, noting that in this case, Gonzalez seemed to be acting erratically and could have become potentially dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, would properly trained, non-sworn people be the best to respond to this? Possibly,\" he said. \"Would they be in some level of danger? Again, possibly. So do you have a mix of a social worker with a police officer?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"And I think each community is trying right now to figure out what that looks like and what's the best model for Alameda.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED's Alex Emslie and Holly McDede, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Police in Alameda are under fire over the death of a Latino man who was pinned to the ground face down for more than five minutes on the same day a jury in Minneapolis began deliberating in the George Floyd case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not been released, but the family of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez accused police Wednesday of using excessive force and escalating what should have been a minor encounter with the unarmed man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez stopped breathing following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">video-recorded confrontation\u003c/a> with police on April 19 at a small park, where officers had confronted him after receiving 911 calls that said he appeared disoriented or drunk. The initial police statement said Gonzalez had a medical emergency after officers tried to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The video showed that he died on the ground with his face on the floor with officers on top of him,\" said his brother, Jerry Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Sherwin, the family's attorney, added, “It would feel like drowning on dry land for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple use-of-force training experts who viewed the video at the request of The Associated Press agreed that the officers shouldn’t have escalated the confrontation, but said their fatal mistake was not immediately taking action once Gonzalez had trouble breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t resisting; he was just trying to breathe,\" said Timothy T. Williams Jr., a law enforcement expert who spent nearly 30 years with the Los Angeles Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest took place just hours before the case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went to the jury. The next day, Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter for pinning Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off a national reckoning over racism and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda, the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">hourlong video\u003c/a> from two officers' body cameras released late Tuesday shows police talking to a seemingly dazed Gonzalez, who struggles to answer questions. The third officer arrives later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gonzalez doesn't produce any identification, the officers are seen trying to force his hands behind his back to handcuff him, but he resists and they take him to the ground. They repeatedly ask him for his full name and birthdate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]Gonzalez, who weighed about 250 pounds is seen grunting and shouting as he lies face down on wood chips while the officers restrain him. One officer puts an elbow on his neck and a knee on his shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One officer also appears to put a knee on his back and leaves it there for about four minutes as Gonzalez gasps for air, saying, “I didn't do nothing, OK?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before he stops breathing, one officer asks the other: “Think we can roll him on his side?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other answers, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Gonzalez seems to lose consciousness, the video shows officers rolling him over and performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses. Gonzalez was pronounced dead at a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone with common sense will ask like how does someone with no preexisting chronic medical conditions suddenly have a medical emergency at the age of 26 and die, just out of the blue,” Jerry Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez had a 4-year-old son, also named Mario, and was the main caretaker of his brother, who has autism and turned 23 on Tuesday, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene O’Donnell, a former New York City police officer and professor of police studies at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that as in the incident that led to Floyd's death, “what's at stake is so small.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials nationwide are reassessing whether counselors rather than police should deal with people who are intoxicated or suffering a mental health crisis. O'Donnell said the Alameda case was an instance in which police \"have to take care of these issues that should not be their issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina and an expert on police use of force, said officers should have rolled Gonzalez over as soon as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once they’re controlling him, as we learned from the Floyd trial with all those medical experts, this position or compression is deadly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gonzalez, who weighed about 250 pounds is seen grunting and shouting as he lies face down on wood chips while the officers restrain him. One officer puts an elbow on his neck and a knee on his shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One officer also appears to put a knee on his back and leaves it there for about four minutes as Gonzalez gasps for air, saying, “I didn't do nothing, OK?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before he stops breathing, one officer asks the other: “Think we can roll him on his side?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other answers, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Gonzalez seems to lose consciousness, the video shows officers rolling him over and performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses. Gonzalez was pronounced dead at a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone with common sense will ask like how does someone with no preexisting chronic medical conditions suddenly have a medical emergency at the age of 26 and die, just out of the blue,” Jerry Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez had a 4-year-old son, also named Mario, and was the main caretaker of his brother, who has autism and turned 23 on Tuesday, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene O’Donnell, a former New York City police officer and professor of police studies at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that as in the incident that led to Floyd's death, “what's at stake is so small.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials nationwide are reassessing whether counselors rather than police should deal with people who are intoxicated or suffering a mental health crisis. O'Donnell said the Alameda case was an instance in which police \"have to take care of these issues that should not be their issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina and an expert on police use of force, said officers should have rolled Gonzalez over as soon as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once they’re controlling him, as we learned from the Floyd trial with all those medical experts, this position or compression is deadly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of an April 19 incident in which an Oakland man died after police officers pinned him to the ground while attempting to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing in Alameda police custody after what police described as a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">according to a statement \u003c/a>released by the Alameda Police Department on April 20. Police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">said\u003c/a> Gonzalez “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” and experienced a “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family, who viewed the video footage before it was released publicly, accused the police of murdering Gonzalez by using excessive force and escalating a situation that was entirely avoidable. Gonzalez was healthy and had no known medical conditions, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, my family and I saw the footage and we know what really happened. Alameda police officers murdered my brother Mario,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest sibling, at a Tuesday press conference and rally outside of the Alameda Police Department, shortly before the video was publicly released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was heartbroken to see Mario’s last moments,” he told the roughly 50 attendees, many holding “Justice 4 Mario” signs. “It was painful to watch the violence and disregard for his humanity. The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11870691 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg']The three officers directly involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure. Officer James Fisher has been with the Alameda Police Department since 2010, while the two other officers, Cameron Leahy and Eric McKinley, joined in 2018, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Alameda is committed to full transparency and accountability in the aftermath of Mr. Gonzalez’s death,” the city said in a statement Tuesday, announcing the release of the video. It noted that separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an independent outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not yet been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I share probably the views of much of the community that you see a video like that and nobody wants to see a young man die,” interim Alameda Police Chief Randy Fenn told KQED on Wednesday. He called Gonzalez’s death “awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And certainly as a police chief, I don’t want to see something like that during an involvement with the police,” he added. “And like the rest of the community, now we’re looking for answers and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Due to its graphic nature, and out of consideration for our communities, KQED is not embedding the video. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">The full version is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly hourlong video, which shows footage from two different police body cameras filmed from different angles, two officers are seen approaching Gonzalez, who is standing alone in the small park next to what appear to be two Walgreens shopping baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers were responding to separate 911 calls, also included in the video, one from a neighbor who reports a man in his front yard “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.” The caller adds, “He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.” A second 911 caller reports the same man, now in the park nearby, who he says has been there for about 30 minutes and appears to be breaking the security tags off of alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrive, they question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he lives in Alameda, Gonzalez says, “I haven’t gotten a house yet” and briefly puts one hand in his pocket, while standing on a small stump. The officers tell him to take his hands out of his pockets before approaching him. Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms, leads him down from the stump and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez can be heard saying, “It’s not that, there’s something else,” and tells them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, while the officers are still trying to get Gonzalez’s hands behind his back, one of them says, “I think we talked before, Mario. This is all coming back to me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11871442 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021 for a press conference to address the police body camera footage of his death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez continues to resist being handcuffed, the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, adjacent to a driveway, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They hold his hands behind his back and eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they continue attempting to subdue him, Gonzalez keeps grunting, heaving and briefly shouting, but his voice is now muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, one of the officers requests a “wrap,” presumably referring to a type of \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/what-is-bola-wrap-the-police-tool-used-to-restrain-suspects-without-lethal-force/75-16ea474f-dce9-4f8a-9894-5fbbfee8d8d9\">full-body restraint device\u003c/a>. The officers ask for the device several more times throughout the altercation, but never ultimately use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK Mario,” one officer says. “We’re going to take care of you, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez shouts several times what sounds like “Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers repeatedly asks Gonzalez when his birthday is, and again requests a wrap, as Gonzalez’s screams grow increasingly loud and seemingly distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you just had too much to drink today, that’s all,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario, calm down please,” one of the officers says. The other officer tells him to stop kicking, amid the sound of approaching sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez remains pinned face down to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, his protestations becoming increasingly weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think we can roll him on his side?” one officer asks. The other responds, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez grows silent and his body goes limp, one officer instructs his partner to not put any weight on his chest. The other officer appears to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 seconds later, when Gonzalez appears to be completely motionless, they roll him on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going unresponsive,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers shout Gonzalez’s first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, his hands still restrained behind his back. About one minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up, as more officers and EMTs arrive. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went from combative to non-responsive almost immediately and then we started compressions,” one of the officers tells an EMT from the Alameda Fire Department, before Gonzalez is lifted into an ambulance and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]Gonzalez’s family members and supporters say the released footage reveals a blatant case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows officers on top of Mario while he was face down on the ground,” his brother Gerardo said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They had their weight on his head and his back. He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight. Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Gerardo said, shows Mario sitting in the park “and not bothering anyone,” and at no point was he out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have asked him to call his family and we would have come and picked him up,” he said. “There was no reason to detain him, let alone kill him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a 4-year-old son, and was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows what we already knew,” Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, said in Spanish, and accused the officers of “killing my son.” One of the officers, she said, held his knee on Gonzalez’s head — a claim not clearly evident in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a kind man and level headed,” Arenales added. “There was a way to deal with this situation without killing my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fenn, the interim police chief, said the video only shows “just a part of what was happening there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got questions about what I see with what the officers are doing,” Fenn said. “But that’s what has to be borne out in the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see kind of two dimensional, for us watching on screen,” he added. “And the officers were living it at that time and all their senses were firing. So we have to figure out what it is that they were experiencing and why they did certain things and how we ended up in the position where we ended up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters are demanding an independent investigation into Gonzalez’s death, any additional footage and had sought release of the officers’ names. They have also hired Haddad & Sherwin LLP, a firm of civil rights trial attorneys, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a ‘Justice 4 Mario’ sign in front of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have the police investigating the police,” said George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, in a statement Tuesday. “DA O’Malley has only brought charges in an officer-involved shooting once in her entire career. This company is working for the City, being spoon fed information by the City, and will no doubt come to a conclusion that is in the City’s best interests. That’s why the family has called for an outside, independent investigation, led by their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press event, Galvis said the city of Alameda and its police department have a long history of racism, and there is “zero oversight of the Alameda police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Galvis noted, was released just a week after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. But he cautioned supporters against mistaking that outcome for any kind of real transformation in police accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to repeat and reiterate that one verdict does not create systemic change,” Galvis said, noting the multiple deaths of people of color across the country at the hands of police in just the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times. Last year, the city agreed to pay the man’s mother $250,000 as part of a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, a longtime community activist who leads the Anti Police-Terror Project, said Gonzalez’s death once again painfully underscores the urgent need to defund police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defund is about taking money out of bloated police budgets and putting that into the community in the form of resources, programs and supports,” she told event attendees on Tuesday. “And it’s about not calling the cops anymore when there’s a mental-health crisis. … It’s about not calling the cops when someone is in the middle of a substance-abuse crisis. We got folks that can handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenn said he agrees it’s time to reexamine which types of professionals are best suited to respond to different kinds of situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s going to be a really important question going forward. And that’s really the question that we’ve been having, not just in Alameda, but in police departments across the state and across the country even before this incident,” he said. “Who are the appropriate responders?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can get complicated fast, Fenn added, noting that Gonzalez may have been experiencing a mental health issue or may have been under the influence, or possibly both, making him potentially unpredictable and possibly dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, would properly trained, non-sworn people be the best to respond to this? Possibly,” he said. “Would they be in some level of danger? Again, possibly. So do you have a mix of a social worker with a police officer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “And I think each community is trying right now to figure out what’s that look like and what’s the best model for Alameda?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Beth LaBerge.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of an April 19 incident in which an Oakland man died after police officers pinned him to the ground while attempting to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing in Alameda police custody after what police described as a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">according to a statement \u003c/a>released by the Alameda Police Department on April 20. Police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">said\u003c/a> Gonzalez “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” and experienced a “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family, who viewed the video footage before it was released publicly, accused the police of murdering Gonzalez by using excessive force and escalating a situation that was entirely avoidable. Gonzalez was healthy and had no known medical conditions, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, my family and I saw the footage and we know what really happened. Alameda police officers murdered my brother Mario,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest sibling, at a Tuesday press conference and rally outside of the Alameda Police Department, shortly before the video was publicly released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was heartbroken to see Mario’s last moments,” he told the roughly 50 attendees, many holding “Justice 4 Mario” signs. “It was painful to watch the violence and disregard for his humanity. The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The three officers directly involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure. Officer James Fisher has been with the Alameda Police Department since 2010, while the two other officers, Cameron Leahy and Eric McKinley, joined in 2018, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Alameda is committed to full transparency and accountability in the aftermath of Mr. Gonzalez’s death,” the city said in a statement Tuesday, announcing the release of the video. It noted that separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an independent outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not yet been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I share probably the views of much of the community that you see a video like that and nobody wants to see a young man die,” interim Alameda Police Chief Randy Fenn told KQED on Wednesday. He called Gonzalez’s death “awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And certainly as a police chief, I don’t want to see something like that during an involvement with the police,” he added. “And like the rest of the community, now we’re looking for answers and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Due to its graphic nature, and out of consideration for our communities, KQED is not embedding the video. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">The full version is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly hourlong video, which shows footage from two different police body cameras filmed from different angles, two officers are seen approaching Gonzalez, who is standing alone in the small park next to what appear to be two Walgreens shopping baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers were responding to separate 911 calls, also included in the video, one from a neighbor who reports a man in his front yard “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.” The caller adds, “He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.” A second 911 caller reports the same man, now in the park nearby, who he says has been there for about 30 minutes and appears to be breaking the security tags off of alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrive, they question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he lives in Alameda, Gonzalez says, “I haven’t gotten a house yet” and briefly puts one hand in his pocket, while standing on a small stump. The officers tell him to take his hands out of his pockets before approaching him. Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms, leads him down from the stump and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez can be heard saying, “It’s not that, there’s something else,” and tells them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, while the officers are still trying to get Gonzalez’s hands behind his back, one of them says, “I think we talked before, Mario. This is all coming back to me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11871442 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021 for a press conference to address the police body camera footage of his death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez continues to resist being handcuffed, the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, adjacent to a driveway, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They hold his hands behind his back and eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they continue attempting to subdue him, Gonzalez keeps grunting, heaving and briefly shouting, but his voice is now muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, one of the officers requests a “wrap,” presumably referring to a type of \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/what-is-bola-wrap-the-police-tool-used-to-restrain-suspects-without-lethal-force/75-16ea474f-dce9-4f8a-9894-5fbbfee8d8d9\">full-body restraint device\u003c/a>. The officers ask for the device several more times throughout the altercation, but never ultimately use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK Mario,” one officer says. “We’re going to take care of you, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez shouts several times what sounds like “Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers repeatedly asks Gonzalez when his birthday is, and again requests a wrap, as Gonzalez’s screams grow increasingly loud and seemingly distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you just had too much to drink today, that’s all,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario, calm down please,” one of the officers says. The other officer tells him to stop kicking, amid the sound of approaching sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez remains pinned face down to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, his protestations becoming increasingly weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think we can roll him on his side?” one officer asks. The other responds, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez grows silent and his body goes limp, one officer instructs his partner to not put any weight on his chest. The other officer appears to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 seconds later, when Gonzalez appears to be completely motionless, they roll him on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going unresponsive,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers shout Gonzalez’s first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, his hands still restrained behind his back. About one minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up, as more officers and EMTs arrive. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went from combative to non-responsive almost immediately and then we started compressions,” one of the officers tells an EMT from the Alameda Fire Department, before Gonzalez is lifted into an ambulance and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family members and supporters say the released footage reveals a blatant case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows officers on top of Mario while he was face down on the ground,” his brother Gerardo said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They had their weight on his head and his back. He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight. Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Gerardo said, shows Mario sitting in the park “and not bothering anyone,” and at no point was he out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have asked him to call his family and we would have come and picked him up,” he said. “There was no reason to detain him, let alone kill him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a 4-year-old son, and was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows what we already knew,” Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, said in Spanish, and accused the officers of “killing my son.” One of the officers, she said, held his knee on Gonzalez’s head — a claim not clearly evident in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a kind man and level headed,” Arenales added. “There was a way to deal with this situation without killing my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fenn, the interim police chief, said the video only shows “just a part of what was happening there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got questions about what I see with what the officers are doing,” Fenn said. “But that’s what has to be borne out in the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see kind of two dimensional, for us watching on screen,” he added. “And the officers were living it at that time and all their senses were firing. So we have to figure out what it is that they were experiencing and why they did certain things and how we ended up in the position where we ended up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters are demanding an independent investigation into Gonzalez’s death, any additional footage and had sought release of the officers’ names. They have also hired Haddad & Sherwin LLP, a firm of civil rights trial attorneys, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a ‘Justice 4 Mario’ sign in front of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have the police investigating the police,” said George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, in a statement Tuesday. “DA O’Malley has only brought charges in an officer-involved shooting once in her entire career. This company is working for the City, being spoon fed information by the City, and will no doubt come to a conclusion that is in the City’s best interests. That’s why the family has called for an outside, independent investigation, led by their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press event, Galvis said the city of Alameda and its police department have a long history of racism, and there is “zero oversight of the Alameda police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Galvis noted, was released just a week after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. But he cautioned supporters against mistaking that outcome for any kind of real transformation in police accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to repeat and reiterate that one verdict does not create systemic change,” Galvis said, noting the multiple deaths of people of color across the country at the hands of police in just the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>During a vigil Wednesday evening in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in the death this week of a 26-year-old Oakland man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody on Monday after what police termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, the Alameda Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">said in a statement\u003c/a> Tuesday. Gonzalez, who police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">claimed\u003c/a> “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” suffered an unspecified “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back, according to the police statement. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a hospital where he later died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need justice because we lost someone who was indispensable to our family,” Gonzalez’s mother, Edith Arenales, said in a statement in Spanish. The police, she said, have not provided any clear information about what happened to her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a noble and decent man who didn’t deserve to have his life ended in this way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, she added, has a 4-year-old son and was the devoted caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“His brother can’t eat. He can’t sleep. He keeps asking where Mario is,” Arenales told the crowd that gathered Wednesday evening, just a day after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking near a large memorial crowded with photos of Gonzalez, flowers and candles, George Galvis of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice told attendees that the police report for Gonzalez looks “almost identical” to the one for George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Edith Arenales, Mario Gonzalez's mother\"]‘We need justice because we lost someone who was indispensable to our family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you take a healthy person in custody who has no health problems and then they mysteriously die? There’s not an uncanny correlation. It’s obvious he was murdered by Alameda police,” he said. “The city of Alameda has a pattern of not holding police officers accountable. And so we’re saying, ‘Ya basta,’ we’re saying, ‘That’s enough, that’s not happening today. That’s not happening in this case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvis accused police of already trying to craft a negative image of Gonzalez by saying he was a suspect in a “possible” theft, part of a pattern, he said, of trying to criminalize people killed in custody to limit public support and empathy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that if they could drag up an old incident report from middle school [of him] smoking weed when he was 12 years old, they’d bring it up. If he had any outstanding traffic tickets, they would have brought it up,” he said. “The best thing that they can do is say that he was a suspect, as a way of trying to somehow lend credibility to once again rationalize the irrational.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith Arenales, the mother of Mario Gonzalez, and her son Gerardo Gonzalez speak during a vigil on April 21, 2021, demanding answers from Alameda police about Mario’s death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Addressing the crowd, Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest brother, demanded that authorities release his brother’s body so the family can arrange for an independent autopsy and properly lay him to rest. He also demanded all available footage of the incident – including video from police body-worn cameras – as well as the names of the three officers involved, and said an independent investigation was necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not explained to our family why they killed Mario,” he said. “The Alameda Police Department needs to explain why a perfectly healthy man who was never charged with a crime was killed in their custody. … We need answers, and we cannot trust their version of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office have both begun investigations into the incident, and the city of Alameda will contract with an outside investigator “to conduct a separate, parallel investigation,” according to Tuesday’s statement from the Alameda Police Department. The department also anticipates releasing the body-worn camera video to the public by the end of next week after all parties involved have been interviewed by the investigating agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three officers involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection of human life is our primary duty as police officers,” interim Police Chief Randy Fenn said in the statement. “The loss of Mr. Gonzalez is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Melissa Nold said police should be transparent and release any footage of the incident as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If nobody did anything wrong, then releasing footage isn’t problematic,” she said. “If they release it, and we see a man with his face down on the ground, and there are people on top of him, obviously struggling, then there are concerns about whether those things were within policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft underscored the importance of due process in the investigation, and said the family should have a chance to view the footage before the public does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very much holding them in my heart, and we will move forward as best as we can to do the right thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Majail-Blanco, sister of Erik Salgado, places her hand on the shoulder of Gerardo Gonzalez during a vigil for his brother Mario Gonzalez in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video showing officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-11/police-detain-black-man-who-was-dancing-in-the-street-in-alameda\">pinning a middle-aged Black man to the ground\u003c/a> and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, announced his retirement several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the speakers at Wednesday’s vigil was Amanda Majail-Blanco, whose brother Erik Salgado was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823531/protesters-demand-answers-in-chp-fatal-shooting-of-erik-salgado\">shot and killed in Oakland\u003c/a> last June by California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want justice. We are tired. I am tired,” she said. “I am tired of continuously having to go through stuff like this at the hands of police and police are still not held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And here we are again with another mourning family,” she added. “We’re here sharing the same story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a passionate and exasperated address, Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project told attendees she was “fed up” with needing to consistently have these vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the only time we see each other, is when the state terrorizes our communities,” she said. “They just keep killing us, they just keep raping us, they just keep tormenting us, they just keep profiling us, they just keep incarcerating us. It’s an avalanche.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Ortiz lights a candle in honor of Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in Alameda on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in police custody on Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prior to the rally, Brooks told reporters that this latest incident is yet another indication that America’s law enforcement system is broken. She said to hear about this on the heels of the Chauvin verdict and the killing of 16-year-old Ma’Kiah Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, “shows us once again that the institution of policing in this country cannot be reformed. It’s time to end policing as we know it and it’s beyond time to hold people accountable who callously harm our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-mario-gonzalez-family\">A GoFundMe fundraising campaign\u003c/a> set up Wednesday by Gerardo Gonzalez had already raised nearly than $36,000 as of Thursday afternoon toward a $180,000 goal. 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