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Angel Zapata Hernandez Died With a Knee to His Neck Months Before George Floyd
On 4/26/21 at 3:45 AM EDT
Months before George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis when former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his knee for over nine minutes, Angel Zapata Hernandez died in San Diego in similar circumstances.
Floyd s killing was captured on video by a passerby and immediately went viral, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality and resulting in Chauvin being found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter last week.
The death of Angel Zapata Hernandez, however, remained largely obscure until last week.
A 24-year-old man, Zapata Hernandez died in the evening of October 15, 2019 after he was found wandering along the railroad tracks close to the Santa Fe Depot. The details of his death were laid bare last week, when the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and Zapata Hernandez s mother agreed to a $5.5 million settlement, while the agency released
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For weeks during the pandemic spring and summer of 2020, thousands of San Diego residents took to the streets around the county, protesting racial injustice and police misconduct in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Floyd’s excruciating death with then-officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck was captured on a now famous cellphone video that, once shared on social media, set off weeks of protests around the world.
What the demonstrators in San Diego did not know in those weeks was that a similar death had occurred months before, on the evening of Oct. 15, 2019, in the heart of downtown: 24-year-old Angel Zapata Hernandez had died while handcuffed and restrained at the hands of two Metropolitan Transit Service security workers, one of whom knelt on his neck for six minutes and seven seconds.
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For weeks during the pandemic spring and summer of 2020, thousands of San Diego residents took to the streets around the county, protesting racial injustice and police misconduct in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Floyd’s excruciating death with then-Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck was captured on a now famous cellphone video that, once shared on social media, set off weeks of protests around the world.
What the demonstrators in San Diego did not know in those weeks was that a startlingly similar death had occurred months before, on the evening of Oct. 15, in the heart of downtown: 24-year-old Angel Zapata Hernandez had died while handcuffed and restrained at the hands of two Metropolitan Transit Service security workers, one of whom knelt on his neck for six minutes and seven seconds.
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