Preliminary information indicates that after the officers made contact with him, there was a scuffle as officers attempted to place his hands behind his back, the Alameda Police Department said in a statement. Officers did not use any weapons during the scuffle with Mr. Gonzalez.
The cause of death remains unknown pending an autopsy, according to police. Police also do not know the cause of the medical emergency Gonzalez suffered.
Investigations have begun by the Alameda County Sheriff s Office and the Alameda County District Attorney s Office, and the city will contract with an outside investigator to conduct a separate, parallel investigation, police said.
Bay Area grocery store owner flagrantly price gouged customers at the start of the COVID pandemic
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Yellow onions were one of the items flagged by the Alameda County District Attorney s Office as being flagrantly marked up by Apna Bazar.Diana Haronis/Getty Images
A Bay Area grocery store owner pled guilty last Wednesday to two counts of flagrant price gouging after officials found that items in the shop were marked up by up to 300%.
Rajvinder Singh, the 51-year-old owner of Pleasanton grocery store Apna Bazar, struck a plea bargain with the Alameda County Superior Court dismissing seven of the nine counts leveled against him in May.
Moved by security camera videos of older Asians being viciously attacked in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jacob Azevedo, a young Latino man, offered in an Instagram post to escort anyone in Oakland’s Chinatown who felt unsafe. Others saw the message and wanted to help him: Compassion in Oakland launched in February and has seen volunteer applications grow from hundreds to more than 2,000, and the organization is working to take the initiative to cities across the country.
“This [violence] is the worst we have ever seen, but it’s the best response I’ve ever seen myself, because when the worst came, we are seeing the best of humanity,” says Carl Chan, president of Oakland’s Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, who emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1970s.
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