Family, friends and advocates convened at Brentwood City Hall on Wednesday to demand answers following the death of 72-year-old Yolanda Ramirez, who family members say died from a brain bleed shortly after a Brentwood Police Department officer slammed her against a car.
Speaking to a reporter outside City Hall before City Council chambers opened to the public, Yolanda’s son Ricardo (Rich) Ramirez said he wanted to know why BPD’s statement on his mother’s death was inconsistent with eye-witness accounts of what happened on Sept. 26, when a family argument among two elderly sisters resulted in police response. In the Nov. 5 statement, BPD alleged that Yolanda fled but the department did not address accusations that officers slammed her head into the patrol vehicle, saying only that she was detained.
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