Daniel Plato-Jacobo

How they died

Deadly force

Police responded to a report of a man threatening to harm himself and others at the building, police said. Police officers located Plato-Jacobo inside an apartment holding a knife. He had cut his own throat before they arrived. The officers tried unsuccessfully to disarm him using pepper spray and a baton and when he lunged at them, an officer fatally shot him in the chest.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Daniel Plato-Jacobo, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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