Fatal Encounters

A step toward creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police

Albert Thomas Dashow

Name: Albert Thomas Dashow
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Race: Asian/Pacific Islander
Date: 03/27/2019
Location: 1021 15th Ave SE
Rochester, Minnesota, 55904
County: Olmsted
Agency: Rochester Police Department
Cause of Death: Asphyxiated/Restrained
Intended Use of Force: Less-than-lethal force
Media summary: An officer tried pulling over a man in a Cub Foods parking lot. The man drove off before the officer was finished with the traffic stop. Video shows the restraining of Albert Dashow by police. Dashow was killed. The autopsy report listed obesity as a significant condition contributing to death, but listed restraint by police as the main cause of death.
Unique ID: 26476

News article: Link






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