Video shows officers wrestling with and detaining Nathan Hoang, 41, who later became unresponsive. Hoang was handcuffed, strapped to a gurney and placed into an ambulance after going unconscious and requiring CPR. He died nine days later at a hospital from a heart attack attributed to methamphetamine use, an enlarged heart and the violent struggle with police, according to released video. Police reports note an EMT allegedly injected Hoang with midazolam (Versed). An Associated Press investigation identified 94 U.S. instances from 2012 to 2021 where people died in custody after being injected with midazolam. Officers responded to a burglary report; Hoang was yelling, attempted to break into a house, stood on a roof and swung a screwdriver.
Nathan Hoang, 41, was handcuffed but later strapped to a gurney and placed into an ambulance when he went unconscious and required CPR. His death, suffered nine days later at a hospital, was attributed to a heart attack that stemmed from a combination of methamphetamine use, an enlarged heart, and the violent struggle with police, according to video released by the city on Wednesday.
The video doesn't address something that police noted in reports of the incident, which was an EMT allegedly injected Hoang with a sedative called midazolam. Sold under the brand name Versed, midazolam was the subject of an Associated Press investigation last year that identified 94 instances across the United States from 2012 to 2021 where a person died in police custody after being injected with it,
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