The family of a man who died after being in police custody in Antioch in 2020 has settled with the city for $7.5 million, a spokesperson for the law office of John Burris said Tuesday.
The Antioch City Council voted to approve the settlement in closed session on Tuesday night, according to the spokesperson for Burris. The civil rights suit against the city of Antioch was filed on behalf of the family of Angelo Quinto, a 30-year-old Filipino American veteran who was suffering from a mental health crisis on Dec. 23, 2020 when Antioch police arrived at his home. Officers were responding to a report that Quinto was having a dispute with his mother.
Contra Costa County prosecutors had alleged that Quinto was under the influence of drugs and that he died from the medically disputed 'excited delirium syndrome.' Ben Nisenbaum, an attorney for Quinto's family, said that 'excited delirium' was a 'phony' cause of death given by the pathologist who carried out Quinto's autopsy.
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