Taylor Barton is a reporting intern with MindSite News, midway through her masters degree at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Barton has previously worked in nonprofit communications, as a sexual assault prevention educator and as a professional actor.
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Correctional officers used pepper spray, stun shields, multiple Taser shocks and a Stinger 15 grenade to remove a single, naked man from his cell in Riverside County’s jail. Ten minutes later he stopped breathing.