Child of woman who died of overdose in San Diego police custody files lawsuit against city

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Aleah Jenkins' 6-year-old son, through his father, has filed the federal wrongful-death lawsuit against the city, police chief and officers.

Attorneys for the young son of a woman who died of a drug overdose after being taken into San Diego police custody last year have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court.

She vomited while in the backseat of a patrol car and repeatedly asked for help and for water, eventually screaming and breathing hard, according to the lawsuit. It also alleges that Officer Lawrence Durbin failed to take Jenkins to a hospital or radio for paramedics.After a one-hour drive through evening commuter traffic, Durbin reached the downtown police headquarters, where Jenkins fell unconscious in medical distress, the lawsuit says.

“The [police] policies and customs behind falsely arresting and failing to provide medical attention, negligence and other wrongdoing ... constitute a menace of major proportions to the public,” the lawsuit states.Aynechi said Taub and Casciola were on the traffic stop when Jenkins was arrested, but were not with Durbin when he drove her to police headquarters.

“She’s throwing up, crying, can’t even sit up straight,” Aynechi said. “She was intoxicated, but once you take someone into custody, they are under your control. She couldn’t call an ambulance.”announced in March that no criminal charges would be filed against officers,

 

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