Prosecutors allege untrained use of stump grinder was key factor
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The owner of a Concord-based landscaping company was charged this week with two felonies in connection with the death of an employee at a worksite in San Ramon nearly three years ago, prosecutors said Thursday.
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The Contra Costa County District Attorney s Office and state investigators allege Segundo Collazos, owner of Amazon’s Landscaping Company, was negligent under the California Labor Code as an employer ahead of the death of Manuel Peralta on the job.
Peralta, 68, of Antioch died while operating a rented tree stump grinder in San Ramon on April 9, 2018.
Shortly before he lost consciousness, Angelo Quinto, 30, asked officers not to kill him, according to a wrongful-death claim filed by his family against the City of Antioch.
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Wrongful death claim accuses police of killing Navy vet by kneeling on his neck
“We see not only violations of his civil rights but also violations against the rights of his mother and sister’s, who saw what happened to him.”
Recorded on cellphone video giving CPR to a Navy veteran in police custody, California police officers have been accused in a wrongful death claim of causing the handcuffed man’s death by kneeling on the back of his neck for nearly five minutes.
On December 23, 2020, the family of Angelo Quinto called the police because the 30-year-old Navy vet was suffering a mental health crisis. According to Quinto’s mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, she had been sitting on the floor and hugging Quinto against her chest in an effort to calm him down when Antioch Police officers arrived.
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A 30-year-old Filipino-American from Antioch, California is dead after the police kneeled on the back of his neck when they tried to subdue him during a mental health episode, several media reported early this week. Angelo Quinto, a Navy veteran who was born in the Philippines, had a mental health crisis on Dec. 23, spurring . This article, Fil-Am veteran with mental health issues dies after police knelt on his neck, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.