After being tasered, pepper sprayed and heavily restrained, Alo Ngata was left face-down in a police cell with an incorrectly-fitted spit hood covering his face.
Although police policy required him to be constantly monitored, it wasn't until CCTV footage showed his hands not moving and starting to change colour that officers came to his aid.
He died in hospital two days later. The Independent Police Conduct Authority today released its report identifying multiple failures by the officers who restrained Mr Ngata, who was on meth when arrested for assaulting an elderly man in Auckland's Freeman's Bay in 2018.
Matthew Theunissen reports.
