Stockton Family Accusing Police Officers Of Murder After Loved One Dies In Custody

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STOCKTON (CBS13) – A household suing the Stockton Police Department is present accusing 2 officers of execution aft a loved 1 died successful constabulary custody.

Karen Sutherland wants the officers accused of sidesplitting her lad Shayne Sutherland fired and charged with murder. The incidental happened successful October 2020 erstwhile a convenience store clerk called constabulary saying a lawsuit was threatening them. Officers arrived and escorted the antheral retired of the store but they accidental helium tried to instrumentality disconnected and that’s erstwhile things turned violent.

“I can’t statesman to archer you the implicit devastating nonaccomplishment that I, arsenic a mother, consciousness each azygous day,” said Karen Sutherland, Shayne’s mother.

Sutherland wants justness and accountability after, she says, her lad was complying and referred to the officers arsenic “sir” and begged them to get disconnected of him.

In bodycam video released by the Stockton Police Department, you tin perceive the following:

Officer: Knock it off.

Officer: Quit warring you understand?

Shayne Sutherland: Yes sir, I got it. I recognize and I won’t move. I won’t determination astatine all.

“This was nary accident, this was a homicide,” said the family’s attorney.

The family’s lawyer says Shayne was handcuffed look down portion 1 serviceman held him down with his assemblage and different utilized a baton to property against his shoulders.

“Did you tackle him? Did you tase him? Did you sprout him? How did helium conscionable illness to the ground? ‘I don’t cognize ma’am helium conscionable collapsed to the crushed and stopped breathing.’ That was the archetypal commencement of their deceptions to my family,” Karen said.

The Stockton Police Department announced a multi-agency probe conscionable days aft the incident, which they said showed nary inflicted trauma oregon injuries pb to Shayne’s death. But a abstracted autopsy ordered by the household showed helium died from restraint asphyxiation.

“And helium noted contusions to Shayne’s jaw, his lips, his chemoreceptor his face. His back, his thighs,” the lawyer said. “And arsenic you saw with George Floyd, Shayne Sutherland was not resisting. Shayne Sutherland was moving his caput successful an effort to gasp for breath.”

“We spent Christmas astatine the cemetery past twelvemonth and opened gifts retired there,” said Karen. “everyone has suffered a immense loss. There’s not words to adjacent picture it.”

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Shayne was a begetter and a younker shot coach. We reached retired to the metropolis of Stockton and the constabulary section for a absorption to the lawsuit, but they accidental they don’t remark connected pending litigation.