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7 Officers, 1 Nurse Charged with Manslaughter over Fatal 2020 L.A. Traffic Stop

HeadlineMar 30, 2023

In Los Angeles, seven California Highway Patrol officers and one nurse were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter over the 2020 death of 38-year-old Edward Bronstein. Bronstein was detained during a traffic stop and violently pinned down at a Highway Patrol station in order to draw a blood sample, despite Bronstein saying multiple times he would give the sample voluntarily and screaming “I can’t breathe” 12 times.

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