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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...g-woman-assault-fatal-20131010,0,611060.story
......LAPD Officer Mary OCallaghan, 48, was charged Wednesday in connection with the July 22, 2012, incident that ended with the death of Alesia Thomas.
O'Callaghan was one of several officers sent to Thomas' home in the 9100 block of South Broadway Avenue to investigate allegations that Thomas had abandoned her children after they were left at a local police station.
OCallaghan arrived at the scene to assist the arresting officers in placing Thomas in a patrol car. While Thomas was in handcuffs and leg restraints, prosecutors said, a police cruisers video camera captured the veteran officer kicking Thomas in the stomach and groin area and pushing her in the throat.
Thomas, once inside the patrol car, lost consciousness and paramedics were called. Shortly afterward, she was pronounced dead at a hospital.......
Hours before she died, Thomas, who suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and drug addiction according to the autopsy report, had left her children, a 3-year-old and a 12-year-old, outside the station, according to a department account of the incident.
Initially, police reported that Thomas was attempting to surrender the children to police custody because she felt she could no longer care for them properly.
In his report, however, Beck said, it appeared Thomas expected her mother to pick the children up at the station.
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......LAPD Officer Mary OCallaghan, 48, was charged Wednesday in connection with the July 22, 2012, incident that ended with the death of Alesia Thomas.
O'Callaghan was one of several officers sent to Thomas' home in the 9100 block of South Broadway Avenue to investigate allegations that Thomas had abandoned her children after they were left at a local police station.
OCallaghan arrived at the scene to assist the arresting officers in placing Thomas in a patrol car. While Thomas was in handcuffs and leg restraints, prosecutors said, a police cruisers video camera captured the veteran officer kicking Thomas in the stomach and groin area and pushing her in the throat.
Thomas, once inside the patrol car, lost consciousness and paramedics were called. Shortly afterward, she was pronounced dead at a hospital.......
Hours before she died, Thomas, who suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and drug addiction according to the autopsy report, had left her children, a 3-year-old and a 12-year-old, outside the station, according to a department account of the incident.
Initially, police reported that Thomas was attempting to surrender the children to police custody because she felt she could no longer care for them properly.
In his report, however, Beck said, it appeared Thomas expected her mother to pick the children up at the station.
More at link......