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Ferguson, Revisited
Adam Goodman, deputy managing editor at the Post-Dispatch, said he was disappointed. “We believe it is simply wrong to continue to prevent disclosure of the police dashcam video and other documentary evidence that helped bring about a secret, taxpayer-funded settlement in 2013,” he said.
“It has been nearly five years since this shooting occurred with no one charged. We note that the arrest and charges came only weeks after we sought more information through a public-records request with police and only days after we sought to have this protective order lifted.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_4df78d57-b230-5293-a8f6-2ed6d173ded9.html
September 21, 2016
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police yesterday shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.
Sept. 20, University City Charlotte, North Carolina man, Keith Lamont Scott, was shot by police
The victim’s brother told said that the motorist was reading a book while waiting for his child to be dropped off from school.
The brother of the victim in the officer-involved shooting says that the cops were undercover.
Glenn tells NPR there was tension recently in Charlotte over a 2013 police shooting of a black man, Jonathan Ferrell. Ferrell was unarmed when he was killed by a white officer; the case went to trial last year.
voluntary manslaughter charge against the officer was dismissed after jurors deadlocked 8-4 to acquit him.
The city paid $2.25 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Ferrell family.
Under a settlement with Kerrick, the officer agree to leave the force and received $179,989.59 from the city — $113,000 in back pay, $16,000 for Social Security and $50,630.80 for the attorney who represented Kerrick in a civil suit brought by Ferrell’s family.
http://qcitymetro.com/2016/09/15/a-f...athan-ferrell/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...own-interstate
The attorneys were able to poke a massive hole in the police’s claims by presenting large, poster-sized images from police video footage that showed Crutcher’s driver-side door was closed, along with his window, which had a visible blood stain on it.
Tulsa’s police chief Chuck Jordan later confirmed that no gun was found in the Oklahoma man’s van or on his person.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/09/...tire-story-up/
The family of an unarmed Black man shot dead by a Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer Friday evening is vehemently denying any and all police narratives that paint their loved one as a threat that needed to be neutralized.
Initially, Tulsa Police spokesperson Jeanne Mackenzie told reporters that Crutcher failed to put his hands up during the encounter with police.
However, recently released footage appear to contradict her telling of events.
An eyewitness told the victim’s daughter that a Taser was used on her father, then he was shot at least three times.
In the aerial video, Crutcher can be see holding his hands up as he moved back to his car.
The dash cam footage below also refutes Mackenzie’s claim that the man did not have his hands up
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/09/...fore-shooting/
Shelby did not activate her patrol car's dashcam, said police spokeswoman Jeanne MacKenzie, and the ground-level video released Monday came from the car of a second officer who arrived at the scene.
http://tsdmemphis.com/news/2016/sep/20/video-captures-another-police-shooting-tulsa-oklah/?page=2
Adam Goodman, deputy managing editor at the Post-Dispatch, said he was disappointed. “We believe it is simply wrong to continue to prevent disclosure of the police dashcam video and other documentary evidence that helped bring about a secret, taxpayer-funded settlement in 2013,” he said.
“It has been nearly five years since this shooting occurred with no one charged. We note that the arrest and charges came only weeks after we sought more information through a public-records request with police and only days after we sought to have this protective order lifted.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_4df78d57-b230-5293-a8f6-2ed6d173ded9.html
September 21, 2016
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police yesterday shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.
Sept. 20, University City Charlotte, North Carolina man, Keith Lamont Scott, was shot by police
The victim’s brother told said that the motorist was reading a book while waiting for his child to be dropped off from school.
The brother of the victim in the officer-involved shooting says that the cops were undercover.
Glenn tells NPR there was tension recently in Charlotte over a 2013 police shooting of a black man, Jonathan Ferrell. Ferrell was unarmed when he was killed by a white officer; the case went to trial last year.
voluntary manslaughter charge against the officer was dismissed after jurors deadlocked 8-4 to acquit him.
The city paid $2.25 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Ferrell family.
Under a settlement with Kerrick, the officer agree to leave the force and received $179,989.59 from the city — $113,000 in back pay, $16,000 for Social Security and $50,630.80 for the attorney who represented Kerrick in a civil suit brought by Ferrell’s family.
http://qcitymetro.com/2016/09/15/a-f...athan-ferrell/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...own-interstate
The attorneys were able to poke a massive hole in the police’s claims by presenting large, poster-sized images from police video footage that showed Crutcher’s driver-side door was closed, along with his window, which had a visible blood stain on it.
Tulsa’s police chief Chuck Jordan later confirmed that no gun was found in the Oklahoma man’s van or on his person.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/09/...tire-story-up/
The family of an unarmed Black man shot dead by a Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer Friday evening is vehemently denying any and all police narratives that paint their loved one as a threat that needed to be neutralized.
Initially, Tulsa Police spokesperson Jeanne Mackenzie told reporters that Crutcher failed to put his hands up during the encounter with police.
However, recently released footage appear to contradict her telling of events.
An eyewitness told the victim’s daughter that a Taser was used on her father, then he was shot at least three times.
In the aerial video, Crutcher can be see holding his hands up as he moved back to his car.
The dash cam footage below also refutes Mackenzie’s claim that the man did not have his hands up
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/09/...fore-shooting/
Shelby did not activate her patrol car's dashcam, said police spokeswoman Jeanne MacKenzie, and the ground-level video released Monday came from the car of a second officer who arrived at the scene.
http://tsdmemphis.com/news/2016/sep/20/video-captures-another-police-shooting-tulsa-oklah/?page=2
