DA declines to prosecute East LA deputies who beat and tased man who died
Nine months after Los Angeles County agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2020 killing of Eric Briceno, the district attorney's office has decided not to prosecute four sheriff's deputies who beat and tased the 39-year-old inside his family's Maywood home.
In a 20-page memo explaining their decision not to pursue the case, prosecutors said they could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Briceno "did not die as a result of an accident or misfortune."
Though the memo indicated that Briceno was asphyxiated as the result of a type of neck injury often caused by strangulation or choking, none of the deputies admitted to using the type of force that would have caused that injury. Prosecutors posited that whoever did cause the fatal injury probably did not do it on purpose.
The decision not to pursue charges came as a disappointment to
