San Diego transit settles death lawsuit after guard presses knee on man s neck
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Upgraded Metropolitan Transit System bus-stop at City College Trolley Station with recently installed camera surveillance. (Photo by Dünzl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO - San Diego County s transportation agency has apologized and agreed to pay $5.5 million to the mother of a mentally ill man who died after a security officer kept a knee on his neck for several minutes.
It was announced Monday that the Metropolitan Transit System, its security contractor and their insurers will split the payment in a mediated settlement over the 2019 death of 24- year-old Angel Zapata Hernandez.
San Diego transit settles death lawsuit after guard presses knee on man s neck
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Months before George Floyd was killed, Angel Hernandez died at a San Diego train station with a knee to his neck, too
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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