No charges will be filed against security guards in the death of an unarmed 25-year-old man during a struggle at a Northland Shopping mall in late February.
“This is not an issue of whether these security guards were negligent,” Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper said during a press conference Thursday. “It’s whether they were criminally negligent.”
“The findings did not support that any officer tried to restrict his breathing by choking him.” said Cooper. “There was no intent to harm. They didn’t hit him. They didn’t place him in a chokehold.”
The struggle came after a shop owner reported that McKenzie Cochran was being threatening. The death was ruled an accidental asphyxia.
The family has filed a civil lawsuit.
