“We think the wrongful conduct started with the decision to take her to a men’s jail in that condition rather than book her into a psychiatric hospital when she got to Grossmont Hospital. And then you add to that the fact that [sheriff deputies] put her face down on a gurney, got on her back and started suffocating her with a sheet, and then she died of asphyxiation.”
— Attorney John Burk re: the death of Vanessa Facen, a male-to-female transgender person
