Overview
- A Marin County jury on Tuesday found Brandon Nail not guilty of felony assault causing great bodily injury and of filing a false police report after a weeks-long trial.
- District Attorney Lori Frugoli said the case needed jury determination and her office accepts the verdict.
- City officials said POST will reinstate Nail’s certificate, obligating San Rafael to return him to duty after an arbitrator had already ordered reinstatement with back pay.
- The 2022 Canal neighborhood encounter began as an open-container check of day laborers, led to injuries that Julio Jimenez Lopez said included a concussion, a broken nose and shoulder surgery, and body-camera footage fueled community outcry.
- Lopez’s civil rights lawsuit was settled with a $999,000 payment by the city, and charges against co-officer Daisy Mazariegos were dismissed in 2024.