'Privilege doesn't protect you': Facebook exec's brother dead after police encounter

Chinedu Okobi, who was unarmed and living with mental illness, died after being Tasered near San FranciscoThe first news of his death came as a traffic update. El Camino Real, a busy road south of San Francisco, had been closed for hours on 3 October as law enforcement investigated what local news called a “deadly encounter”.A man was dead after being Tasered by sheriff’s deputies. He was described, in the early reports, only as a “36-year-old black man”, who the sheriff’s department said in a statement had been “running in and out of traffic” early that afternoon and had “assaulted” a sheriff’s deputy who approached him. An investigation was taking place. Continue reading…
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