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Abstract: 

It is the ultimate drama with Greek overtures when law enforcement officers encounter in public a hapless individual either high on meth, acting out in psychotic fashion or both. The officers are rarely well trained on how to handle the public spectacle and the looming more private tragedy. The individual is not in control of himself whatever the motivating factors. Steven Neuroth died in the Mendocino County, Calif. Jail on July 11, 2014. He never received minimally adequate health care and, indeed, was restrained by his arms and legs in a prone position before his death. Whether asphyxia was the cause of death appears to be in dispute. What’s not in dispute is that Steven’s body was riddled with sign of trauma. He clearly had been pushed, shoved, and punched. For control, or for “sport?” Did he die a preventable death? Did the active deputies have adequate training? Why was no medical care provided?

Keywords: Neuroth v. Mendocino Co., 2018 WL 4181957 (N.D. Cal.)

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.