Jacob Bauer

Less-than-lethal force

Officers responding to a man breaking bottles and acting erratically in a grocery store encountered Jacob Bauer outside the store. Bauer was 5'9' 274 pounds and resisted arrest. Bauer was beaten with batons and drive-stunned with a taser four times before multiple pairs of handcuffs were used to cuff him. Officer then placed Bauer in a body-wrap restraint device before putting Bauer on a stretcher. When he was placed in the ambulance, a paramedic removed Bauer's spit-mask and saw that his face had turned blue. Bauer was pronounced dead at the hospital. County coroner contends that Bauer died from acute methamphetamine toxicity and underlying causes including mechanical asphyxia caused by the police restraint device, cardiac hypertrophy and morbid obesity. Coroner for Bauer family's civil suit contends mechanical asphyxia caused by the police restraint device was the cause of death.