SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The family of a man who died shortly after he was removed from a downtown San Diego bar and was restrained by responding San Diego Police officers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the City of San Diego and the officers involved, among others.
Gabriel Jesus Garza, 40, was removed by bar security from Star Bar on Jan. 25 for what sheriff’s officials described as a “disturbance” in which Garza allegedly bit a security guard.
The lawsuit filed in San Diego federal court alleges responding officers held Garza down on his stomach “until he went limp” and that since his death, the city “has refused to provide Mr. Garza’s family with meaningful information and/or documentation regarding the circumstances of Mr. Garza’s death — leading them to rely on bystander accounts of the events.”…