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Local Investigations fellow for @nytimes. Reporter for @MyDesert.
May 18 7 tweets 2 min read
Riverside County quietly paid $7.5M to the family of a man who died in 2020 after a violent cell extraction at the Banning jail. He was left alone for 7 mins after being hit with pepper spray, rubber pellets and tightly restrained. He stopped breathing. nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/… The settlement comes as the California Justice Dept's civil rights investigation of the department - which was triggered after custody deaths quadrupled in the county - continues to unfold. desertsun.com/story/news/nat…