OAKLAND — Alameda County’s top prosecutor on Thursday dropped charges against six current and former Alameda County sheriff’s deputies and two medical clinicians in the death of Maurice Monk, who died his Santa Rita Jail cell in 2021.

District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson decided to drop the charges nine months after her predecessor — former civil rights attorney Pamela Price — filed the case in a bombshell announcement just days after the November 2024 election, during which Price was recalled from office.

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Speaking in court Thursday, prosecutor Mark Bennett said that charges against most of the people charged by Price “cannot be supported by the evidence.” He added that the announcement was not meant to signal that people involved in his death were “free from fault or

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