Headline: Vicki I. Sarmiento, 1958 — 2024

Civil rights lawyer specialized in police abuse litigation

Vicki Ingrid Sarmiento, a civil rights advocate who represented victims of law enforcement brutality and racial profiling, has died. She was 65.

She suffered from pulmonary embolism that was the result of a surgery caused by a fall, her legal assistant of 14 years said.

"We are all heartbroken and devastated," Joana Fregoso said Monday. "We still can't believe she is gone. She left us too soon."

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