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/PRNewswire/ -- The City of Pleasanton has settled the wrongful death case of John and Rose Bauer v. City of Pleasanton, et al for $5.9 million, one of the...
PLEASANTON â As a wrongful death lawsuit moves toward a possible summer trial, recently released police body-cam video shows a 38-year-old mentally ill man saying "I can't breathe," as Pleasanton officers straddled him and restrained him during an arrest. Jacob Bauer, who was dead by the time he reached a hospital following the fracas Aug. 1, 2018, was repeatedly shocked with a Taser gun during the struggle with up to eight officers, one of whom responded to Bauer that he could indeed breathe because he was yelling. "This is worse than George Floyd," said Bauer family attorney Gary Gwill...