The county of San Diego has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man with Down syndrome who was roughed up by an on-duty sheriff's deputy.
The deputy used pepper spray and a metal baton to subdue the man before handcuffing him.
Only when he got the 21-year-old man into his squad car did the deputy realize that the man was not resisting arrest but rather had become frightened and confused because he did not understand the deputy's commands.
Antonio Martinez was leaving his family's bakery in Vista on Dec.