Deputies ignored man as he choked on Santa Rita Jail wristband in ‘preventable’ death, lawsuit says

DUBLIN — For an hour and 21 minutes, Jose Pina Cardenas gasped and writhed on the floor of his Santa Rita Jail cell with a plastic wristband lodged in his throat, according to a federal lawsuit filed by his five children.

But instead of helping him, multiple Alameda County sheriff’s deputies allegedly dismissed his distress as “talking” and falsified a colleague’s initials on a cell-check log, according to the lawsuit.

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