SAN DIEGO (AP) — A jury has awarded $85 million in the death of a man who was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015.
The federal jury on Tuesday found for the family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the county for the death of 32-year-old Lucky Phounsy.
The lawsuit says Phounsy had called 911 while suffering paranoid delusions but deputies escalated the situation, eventually leading to a struggle where Phounsy was shocked, hit and hog-tied.
His heart stopped in an ambulance and he died at a hospital.
One of the deputies involved, Richard Fischer, later spent five months in jail for assaulting 16 women while on duty.
