Demonstrators packed the lobby of Inglewood City Hall after a tense City Council meeting on Tuesday, chanting the name of Bryan Bostic, the 37-year-old Compton man who died March 10 in Inglewood police custody.
City officials released little information on Bostic’s death until Sunday, when Mayor James Butts said in a statement that police arrested him after “a brief struggle with officers” and that he appeared to have stopped breathing by the time he arrived at the city jail.
LA County Fire Department paramedics were called twice to examine Bostic before he was declared dead, Butts said, once at the site of his arrest and again at the city jail.Butts told The LA Local on Tuesday that police didn’t share information sooner because they want to make sure they have the correct details…