Скачать или смотреть Grand jury declines to charge police in death of man held on his chest for 4 minutes

A grand jury has decided not to charge three Portland police officers who restrained 52-year-old Damon Lamarr Johnson in a prone position for four minutes.

According to Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez, the still-unreleased medical examiner's report describes the cause and manner of death as "prone restraint cardiac arrest with a contributing cause of acute methamphetamine intoxication."

Officers J.P. Duque Valencia, Travis Wortman and Jason Epton, who restrained Johnson prior to his death the night of June 27, had been responding to reports that he was having a mental health crisis.

The call, placed by security officers at Argyle Gardens, the low-income housing complex where Johnson had been living, claimed he had hung knives from his window earlier in the day, had sprayed shaving cream in the hall and had flooded his unit with water.

The use of the restraints has come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly since the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.

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