Herbert Tyrone Watt
Name: Herbert Tyrone Watt
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 01/18/2007
Location: Ralston Street and Randolf Street
San Francisco, California, 94132
County: San Francisco
Agency: San Francisco Police Department
Cause of Death: Asphyxiated/Restrained
Intended Use of Force: Less-than-lethal force
Media summary: Herbert Tyrone Watt died while being detained by two officers during a traffic stop initiated because Watt only had paper license plates (he apparently had bought the car very recently). Officers searched him and found a bag of crack cocaine, which they put in the patrol car, police said. Watt then began to struggle with the officers, grabbed the bag, put it in his mouth, and choked on it.
Unique ID: 5829
News article: Link
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