Elk Grove police officers who placed an unarmed man in an apparent mental health crisis in a restraint device — and who later died — did not first call mental health professionals available to them.
That information is reigniting calls from mental health professionals for California Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate the death and for Elk Grove police to release disciplinary records.
Scott Saetern, 37, was unarmed and in an apparent mental health crisis at an Elk Grove gas station in June 2025 when police placed him in a constraint device in a vehicle for 10 minutes as he yelled for help and eventually lost consciousness. The Sacramento Bee obtained police video of the episode from Saetern’s family’s attorney and published it last month.…