Months before George Floyd, Angel Hernandez died at a downtown train station with a knee to his neck, too
Print 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 oc...
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