COUNTY TO PAY IN JAIL DEATH.Byline: Staff and Wire Services LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - Los Angeles County supervisors agreed Tuesday to pay $600,000 to the family of a Palmdale man who died after struggling with sheriff's deputies at Twin Towers county jail. Jailed on suspicion of stealing a shopping cart, Kevin Evans, 33, stopped breathing after struggling with deputies trying to place him in a restraining RESTRAINING. Narrowing down, making less extensive; as, a restraining statute, by which the common law is narrowed down or made less extensive in its operation. device. Supervisors agreed to wait a week to consider what corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or should be taken regarding future actions by deputies using similar restraints. The $600,000 settlement will be drawn from the sheriff's budget. A $10 million lawsuit had been filed by two sisters of Evans, who was homeless. Court documents said that Evans resisted being placed into the ``four- point'' restraint and that ``a number'' of sheriff's deputies attempted to restrain him. After the restraints were applied, Evans was unconscious and without vital signs. Evans was being placed in a ``four-point'' restraint as ordered by a county medical services psychiatrist psychiatrist /psy·chi·a·trist/ (si-ki´ah-trist) a physician who specializes in psychiatry. psy·chi·a·trist n. A physician who specializes in psychiatry. who examined him when he arrived at Twin Towers. Only physicians may order the use of four-point restraints, which bind a person's arms and legs. The coroner described his injuries as ``neck trauma and exhaustion from restraint against combative com·bat·ive adj. Eager or disposed to fight; belligerent. See Synonyms at argumentative. com·bat  ive·ly adv. behavior.'' The autopsy found
evidence of severe heart disease as well.
The sisters' lawsuit said deputies failed to call immediately for medical help after they noticed Evans was not breathing. Ironically, the deputy who had found Evans with a Food 4 Less shopping cart had given him a citation and let him go. He was sent to jail by the judge when he arrived in court for a hearing and was argumentative Controversial; subject to argument. Pleading in which a point relied upon is not set out, but merely implied, is often labeled argumentative. Pleading that contains arguments that should be saved for trial, in addition to allegations establishing a Cause of Action or and disruptive, a coroner's report said. |
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