3 Alameda Officers are Charged w/Involuntary Manslaughter for Their Murder of Mario Gonzalez: Latino Man Hadn't Committed a Crime When White Cops Smothered Him to Death as He Begged for Life

From [HERE] The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in California announced charges on Thursday against three City of Alameda police officers for involuntary manslaughter of detainee Mario Gonzalez.

The incident that ended in Mr. Gonzalez’s death began when the officers responded to a call that a man was loitering and behaving strangely in a public park on April 19, 2021.

Mr. Gonzalez was wandering at the edge of the park, near a row of houses - not harming anyone or any property. Body camera footage captured Officer McKinley approaching Mr. Gonzalez in a polite manner, asking him if he was Ok [racists and authorities are often very polite when they practice racism and/or deception or violence] Mr. Gonzalez spoke incoherently, standing near two shopping baskets of liquor bottles. [standing near baskets of booze isn’t a crime - but it made an impression on white ”journalists” at the NY Times who parrot whatever police tell them]

When a second officer arrived, the encounter escalated, as the men asked Mr. Gonzalez repeatedly for his name and identification. They grabbed his arms, and Mr. Gonzalez began to cry out. The officers brought him to the ground and held him there face down, a restraint technique that is known to pose a risk to a person’s ability to breathe. Gonzalez then died at the scene.

In other words, the police acted without the authority of a warrant and there was no basis for the stop or detention and there was no reasonable and articulable suspicion that Mario loitered or otherwise interfered with anyone or any property. As, such the white cops violated Mario’s so-called “4th Amendment rights” - if you believe in the existence of such things.

An initial investigation did not find any police misconduct. The autopsy pointed to methamphetamine as the cause of death, with stress from the restraint, obesity and alcoholism as contributing factors. But the District Attorney’s Office reopened the case later, and a second autopsy pointed to asphyxiation from the restraint as the cause of death.

The District Attorney’s Office charged the officers with involuntary manslaughter under section 192(b) of the California Penal Code. That statute criminalizes “the unlawful killing of a human being without malice … in the commission of a lawful act which might product death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.” That means the prosecutors need to prove that the officers were negligent in restraining Gonzalez and that the restraint caused his death.