California to pay $24 million over death of man who yelled 'I can't breathe' while pinned by CHP
by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — California has agreed to pay $24 million to the family of a man who died after yelling "I can't breathe" as officers pinned him to the ground and tried to draw his blood following a traffic stop, attorneys for the family said Wednesday.
The deadly encounter in March 2020 came just months before the police killing of George Floyd, who uttered the same phrase to Minneapolis officers more than 20 times. Video of the final moments of Edward Bronstein in a California Highway Patrol maintenance yard in Altadena,
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