Pasadena Police Officer Ryan Whitehead was also involved in the 2019 incident where Jamal Shaw died after suffering a seizure in custody. Along with Officer Marroquin, Whitehead attempted to restrain Shaw and deployed a Taser into Shaw’s chest as he stumbled in medical distress:contentReference[oaicite:79]{index=79}. Shaw collapsed and later died, and federal judges found that the officers’ actions—tasing an unarmed detainee during a seizure—could constitute unconstitutional excessive force, allowing Shaw’s family’s lawsuit to proceed to trial:contentReference[oaicite:80]{index=80}:contentReference[oaicite:81]{index=81}.
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