Annette Garcia, a mother of three children, was shot in the back Wednesday evening by a Riverside County Sheriffs deputy.
Pereira told Garcia he would drop him off at the next exit, and asked him to sit in the back of his patrol car.
They said an external review should be undertaken to identify mistakes and improve transparency.
Critics contend the syndrome — which remains rare but has increased in prevalence since a surge in cocaine use in the 1980s — is still vague and poorly understood, almost always cited after a struggle with police, and open to abuse by police agencies or prosecutors.
His heart had flat-lined, his breathing stopped, his brain starved of oxygen, medical records show.
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