Walkup Attorney Joseph Nicholson quoted in Sacramento Bee: “The city never investigated Reggie’s death as a police use of force and never seriously considered why their officers and firefighters would allow an individual in a medical crisis to be ‘taken down’ and restrained like a dangerous criminal, essentially hogtied in the prone position in his own living room,” Nicholson said in an email. “Or why there was no urgency to help Reggie even after he became unconscious and unresponsive… While it is common that civil settlements are not understood as admissions of fault, we hope the city will not miss this opportunity for needed change.”
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