Shayne Sutherland Settlement

No One Else Needs to Die From Positional Asphyxiation: The Stockton City Council recently approved a $6 million settlement with Shayne Sutherland’s family in their federal wrongful death lawsuit. Sutherland, who was suffering from a mental health crisis on Oct. 8, 2020, would likely not have died if Stockton Police officers followed their training and rolled him onto his side into the recovery position after handcuffing him. Instead, two officers held him face-down, applying pressure with their bodies and batons for more than eight minutes, resulting in the death of the father of two, and stepfather to three. He was 10 days shy of his 30th birthday.

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