In pre-trial filings, lawyers for both sides battled over how much of his past-run-ins with law enforcement, substance misuse, and financial strain-jurors would be allowed to consider. His other brother, Julian Landeros, called Daniel “my 1st best friend” in a text to The Daily Beast. “He was a good father, a great family man, a provider for his family,” Vincent said. ![]() The lawsuit brought by his wife and five children ages 11-23 claims that he died not because he was agitated, high, nor in poor health-as the defendants argue-but because long after he had stopped struggling, the officers used their weight to keep him pinned face-down, cutting off his oxygen.ĭaniel Landeros was the youngest of his parents’ four children-“the baby,” an older brother, Vincent Landeros Jr., told The Daily Beast during a break in the trial last week, which several other members of the Landeros family have traveled to Sacramento to watch. To the Landeros family, the only thing that matters is what police officers did, or failed to do, once they had Daniel subdued. A local prosecutor would later clear the officers of criminal wrongdoing. Several more officers arrived to assist in what police body- and dash-cam video showed was a chaotic confrontation. The nighttime crash left other motorists injured, and when Landeros got out of his totaled truck, bleeding from a forehead gash, he ran away when the officers approached him, court records show. Landeros-in a state of methamphetamine intoxication, according to his autopsy-swerved into oncoming traffic and struck three passenger vehicles near an intersection where two Elk Grove police officers happened to be conducting a traffic stop, court records show. Floyd was being questioned about a supposedly fake $20 bill passed at a convenience store. ![]() Garner was selling loose cigarettes from the curb. Like Floyd, and Eric Garner before him, Landeros can be heard in video of his arrest crying out, “I can’t breathe.”īut jurors in his case have a very different set of facts to consider. Jurors convicted ex-Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin of murder for the several agonizing minutes he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck, rejecting defense efforts to blame Floyd’s death on drug use and heart disease. In a community that generally votes Democratic but where law-and-order sentiment runs high, and the top county law-enforcement officials are self-styled conservatives, the Landeros case is also a test of where a local jury’s natural sympathies rest at a time of heightened anxieties about public safety. But the trial is set to conclude this week in a climate of heightened awareness about police use of force, after the Floyd case introduced millions to the horrors of “positional asphyxia”-suffocating in a prone position-and how restraint by cops can cause it. The city and cops say Landeros’ own reckless behavior, along with heart failure, caused his death.įour years before the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the death of Daniel Landeros did not draw national attention (the Sacramento Bee has kept tabs on the case). ![]() The family says they killed someone who no longer posed an imminent threat despite his behavior, and was clearly in the throes of either a mental health episode, substance misuse, or both. After the crash, police officers tased Landeros and then pinned him face down on the ground, handcuffed with a knee in his back, until he stopped breathing.
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