MARTINEZ — The Contra Costa County District Legal professional’s Workplace has discovered that the 2021 dying of a 47-year-old man was not attributable to the Richmond law enforcement officials who handcuffed him shortly earlier than he went into medical misery, the company stated Tuesday.
Ivan Gutzalenko, of San Francisco, died on March 10, 2021, after officers responded to experiences of a disturbance within the 12600 block of San Pablo Avenue. Police reported that they discovered Gutzalenko bleeding from his palms and agitated earlier than placing handcuffs on him.
In a press release Tuesday, Contra Costa County District Legal professional Diana Becton stated Officers Mark Corridor, Tom Tran and Cedric Tagorda have been to not blame for Gutzalenko’s dying, nor did they do something illegal of their try to deliver him beneath management.
The report stated Tagorda positioned a knee on Gutzalenko’s ankles and that Corridor positioned a knee on his left buttocks. Tran utilized stress to Gutzalenko’s shoulders, in keeping with the report.
“Within the case of Ivan Gutzalenko, the Contra Costa District Legal professional’s authorized evaluation decided that the officers’ use of power on March 10, 2021, was cheap given the circumstances,” learn a press release from the DA’s Workplace. “The evaluation additionally discovered inadequate proof to show that the power utilized by the officers precipitated Mr. Gutzalenko’s dying. Subsequently, no additional motion might be taken on this case.”
The report got here from the DA’s impartial investigation of the incident, in keeping with DA’s spokesperson Ted Asregadoo. The investigation additionally included a abstract of the post-mortem and the result of a coroner’s inquest in March 2022, when a jury dominated that Gutzalenko’s dying was an accident. The post-mortem indicated Gutzalenko was beneath the affect of methamphetamine.