Edward Bronstein Race: What Ethnicity Is Edward Bronstein?

Edward Bronstein, a 38-year-old father from Southern California , died as officers tried to take his blood sample on 31 March 2020.

Edward Bronstein died while in the custody of California Highway Patrol just weeks before George Floyd died in a similar manner.

Edward Bronstein, who died pinned to the ground by California Highway Patrol said “I can’t breathe,” prior to his death, according to newly unsealed police video.

Edward Bronstein had been taken into custody following a March 2020 traffic stop – and died just weeks before, and in a similar manner as, George Floyd’s murder by police that sparked a global movement condemning police brutality and racial injustices.

The video taken by the CHP had been sealed until Tuesday March 15, 2022, when a federal judge deemed “the public’s interest in the conduct of its peace officers outweighs other interests and any risk of particularized harm,” according to CNN.

The video was ordered to be made public for use in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Bronstein’s family in December 2020, in which they alleged officers used “excessive and objectively unreasonable force” against Bronstein, who was “unarmed, unrestrained and surrounded by uniformed peace officers,” CNN reported.

“My dad was a good person,” Edward Bronstein’s daughter, Brianna Palomino said at a press conference following the video’s release. “Nobody deserves to die this way. He was treated like trash, like his life was not deserving.”

Edward Bronstein was an American.