Sheriff Deputy in Northern California Being Investigated for Disabled Man David Ward’s Death [Video] [Caution Disturbing Content]

A sheriff’s emissary in Northern California will be dismissed for putting a male in a chokehold who died later.  

Sheriff of Sonoma County Mark Essick expelled a video on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, of bodycam footage from Deputy Charles Blount that showed him putting David Glen Ward into a chokehold. Ward was a plant of a carjacking, however, officers suspicion he was a suspect.  

The plant was 52 years old and after died in a circuitously hospital.  

“The approach Deputy Blount handles a whole conditions is intensely troubling. As a result, we have served Deputy Blount with a notice of termination. He has been on executive leave given this occurrence occurred and he will sojourn on leave until a end of this review and all intensity appeals have taken place,” Essick pronounced in a video.  

Blount’s profession Harry Stern shielded his client’s actions and referred to a sheriff’s reckless response as a product of “political expediency.” 

Additionally, Stern emphasized that a emissary was still employed, notwithstanding a notice of termination. This is given a review has not nonetheless been concluded.  

The occurrence occurred on Nov. 27, not prolonged after Ward reported his automobile had been stolen. The Santa Rosa Police Department saw his automobile pass by and contacted a sheriff’s bureau to support in recuperating a car.  

Deputies responded and according to a sheriff’s office, attempted to lift a automobile over.  

“What a deputies did not know during a times was that Mr. Ward was not usually a owners of a car, though a plant of a progressing carjacking. The think had pistol-whipped him and stolen his car. Mr. Ward had recovered the car, but failed to news it. It stays a poser as to because he fled from a deputies,” reported Essick in a video.  

The physique cam shows Ward, who has a black eye, lift over temporarily. He immediately pulls out and starts a high-speed chase. Officers pursue him roving as quick as 70 miles per hour into Bloomfield, California. Eventually, a follow comes to a hindrance when Ward reaches a cul-de-sac and pulls over.  

Deputies try to mislay Ward from the vehicle, but he refuses to concur and even bites dual of a deputies.  

“Why are we f—ing harassing me all a time?” Ward asks a deputies after he struggles to clear a doorway and opens a window instead.  

Deputy Blount seizes Ward by his arm and attempts to lift him out of a window before Ward agrees to concur and get out of a car. The deputies seize him and drag him out of a vehicle, and it appears that Ward’s leg is pinched underneath a wheel. He yells, “my legs, my legs,” in pain.  

This is when Ward bites a dual deputies.  

In response to being bit, Blount strikes Ward’s conduct opposite a side of a automobile and a other emissary shoots him with a taser twice. As Ward is being tased Blount puts him into a chokehold. Ward can be listened sputtering and panting for atmosphere in a footage.  

After violation a newcomer side window, officers from a Sebastopol Police Department drag Ward, who appears to be unconscious, out of a automobile and fetter him. 

The officers try to arise Ward though stop when they contend he seems to be breathing. 

“Keep monitoring his respirating and s–,” Blount tells a officers.  

Later in a video, another emissary identifies Ward as a owners of a automobile and states that he was with Ward hours progressing looking for a stolen vehicle.  

Blount says in a video, “Oh well.” 

Seconds later, an officer notices that Ward has stopped breathing. Blount tells them to start CPR and reports his state to dispatch.  

Blount tells a officers, “Start it. Just do it. It can’t harm to do it.” 

Later, Ward was declared dead by a circuitously hospital. 

Ward’s half-sister Catherine Aguilera told KCRA that Ward struggled with drugs and had other health issues given being strike by a dipsomaniac motorist while roving a motorcycle. He suffered from ongoing opposed pulmonary illness and a heart condition. Ward used a hiker or a wheelchair to get around and had to lift an oxygen tank.  

According to a sheriff, “We recover those videos so a village can get as full a design as probable and vicious incidents in a county, regardless of either it puts us in a good light or bad.” 

“Please know that this one chairman does not simulate a enlightenment of a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and does not paint a overworked group and women who work here.” 

Blount’s profession expelled a statement, “Deputy Blount didn’t means David Ward’s death. Frankly, Mr. Ward caused his possess genocide by inexplicably taking a series of bizarre actions that reliable in a deputies’ minds that he was an armed carjacker.” 

The counsel believes that justification will uncover that Ward died of other causes. “Most significantly, there were no indications of mishap to his neck.” 

By Jeanette Vietti 

NBC News: California emissary attempts chokehold on motorist who after died
CNN: California emissary on leave after vigourously stealing carjacking plant from vehicle, policeman says
Sacbee: Disabled male who fled CA cops died after being put in chokehold

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