'I think they killed him.' The 19-year-old died back in 2021 while restrained by officers, a moment captured on bodycam, but a police union chief said the officers involved were cleared.
Jermaine Sonnier was 19 when he died while in HPD custody. A new ruling, though, is adding to his mom's quest to hold Houston accountable.The mother of a man who died while in Houston police custody is demanding accountability after his death was ruled a homicide.According to HPD, a drug investigation led to a traffic stop, and body-worn camera video, which the department released in July 2021, shows Sonnier take off running. When officers catch up with him, one deploys a Taser.
Meghan Sonnier and her attorney believe if it wasn't for the police interaction, Sonnier would still be alive. "You take someone who's resisting arrest and it's not pretty. It does look ugly. If you look at the video, no one hits him, no one kicks him, no one does anything but try to restrain, hold him down to get handcuffs on him. And when they get the handcuffs on him, he still resists that," Griffith explained.
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