OAKLAND — A federal judge rejected an effort by the family of a man who died in Oakland police custody to back out of a settlement with the city.

Federal District Judge Thelton P. Henderson ruled Tuesday that the $450,000 settlement brokered in January between the family of Hernan Jaramillo and Oakland couldn’t be vacated because the court lacked the appropriate jurisdiction.

Jaramillo died in 2013 while being restrained by police officers outside of his Fruitvale District home.

Body camera footage published by this newspaper in January, days after the settlement was approved by the City Council, showed Jaramillo screaming “I can’t breathe,” numerous times while officers held him on the ground.

Attorneys John Burris and DeWitt Lacy, who represented Jaramillo’s family, had argued in a court hearing on April 4 that some of Jaramillo’s siblings didn’t give final assent to the deal.

They said that a spotty Internet connection had cut off family members living in Columbia and Miami during a settlement conference.

Ana Biocini, Jaramillo’s sister, told Henderson at the hearing that she wanted to take the case to trial in an effort to seek justice for her brother’s death.

In court filings, attorneys for the city had argued that Biocini and her siblings were motivated by the release of the video to renege on the settlement.

Burris said Wednesday that he was disappointed but not surprised at Henderson’s ruling.

“Usually once a deal is made that deal is typically affirmed,” he said.

Burris said the ruling was the end of the road for the case and he wouldn’t be pursuing avenues of appeal.

Biocini said she was devastated by the news that the settlement was affirmed.

She lived with Jaramillo and watched on the night of his death as police officers removed him from his home and then took him to the ground with a leg sweep after he refused to sit in a police car.

“I was crying and crying, because I thought about my brother,” she said about the decision. “I don’t know how I am going to live with this for the rest of my life.”

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