“It was really hard for me to hear police say ‘choke him out’,” says Dr Raelene Nixon, reflecting on the death of her son in police custody. “That would have been the last thing Steven would have heard.
“It’s heartbreaking when you’re the parent of somebody that you love so much, to know that was the way his life ended. He died in one of the most violent, atrocious ways that any 27-year-old could die.
