DENVER (CN) — A Colorado Springs family on Thursday asked the 10th Circuit to revive their lawsuit against the crisis response unit that put 63-year-old Kevin Dizmang into a fatal restraint while he was experiencing a mental health crisis.
“When you have an act as egregious as this, the court should not wait for a similar case to find this a constitutional violation,” argued attorney Harry Daniels, on behalf of Dizmang’s family.
“We’re talking about a person who was showing signs of strained breathing and hypoxia, and a paramedic, someone who was trained to identify those issues, who instead wrapped his arm around his neck in a chokehold, resulting in death,” Daniels said…