12 December 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police officer who killed Ethan Saylor won’t be indicted

source: LifeNews.com
published/archive: 12 October 2014

In 2011, Ethan Saylor died after police deputies tried to forcibly remove him from a Maryland movie theater. Saylor, 26, had Down syndrome and went to the theater with his heath aid to see Zero Dark Thirty.

The incident occurred when the movie concluded and Saylor said he wanted to see it again. The theater employees approached him and asked him to leave since he hadn’t purchased a second movie ticket. However, Ethan didn’t want to leave so three police deputies came in to resolve the situation.

12 December 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Debra Jean Milke has murder charges dismissed

source: Daily Mail Online
published: 12 December 2014

In a scathing critique of Arizona’s criminal justice system, a state appeals court on Thursday ordered the dismissal of murder charges against a woman who spent 22 years on death row in her son’s killing.

The Arizona Court of Appeals said the charges against Debra Jean Milke in the 1989 death of her son Christopher can’t be refiled. A three-judge panel said it agrees with Milke’s argument that a retrial would amount to double jeopardy. The court held that prosecutors’ failure to turn over evidence that could have helped Milke’s defense was egregious, calling the actions ‘a severe stain on the Arizona justice system.’

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18 November 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Cleveland woman with mental illness died after police used takedown move

source: Cleveland.com
published: 13 November 2014

A 37-year-old bipolar and schizophrenic woman died after police slammed her to the pavement outside her family’s home, her brother said.

Tanesha Anderson was pronounced dead at Cleveland Clinic early Thursday after an altercation with officers nearly two hours earlier on the 1300 block of Ansel Road.

“They killed my sister,” her 40-year-old brother Joell Anderson said with welling eyes in his living room Thursday night. “I watched it.”