26 August 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Man dies following police pepper spray use

all credits: The Journal.ie
published: 23rd August 2011

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 25-year-old man while in police custody in England yesterday evening. The IPCC monitors serious complaints and allegations of misconduct against English and Welsh police. The man was arrested by Widnes police for an alleged affray yesterday and officers used pepper spray while restraining him during the arrest.

The man was then taken to the police station, where he became ill shortly after his arrival. He was taken to hospital by ambulance, but was pronounced dead shortly after 7pm.

A post-mortem is due to be carried out on the man’s remains today. The IPCC said in a statement that its officers began their investigating this morning.

26 August 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police admit failure to treat Chinese man’s murder as racist

originally by: The Guardian
published: 23rd August 2011

The family of a murdered Chinese man have received a public apology after the police admitted that officers had failed to treat an attack by a gang of youths as a racist murder. Lothian and Borders police said on Tuesday there were a series of “significant” and unacceptable flaws in its investigation into the killing last year of Simon San, a 40-year-old takeaway worker.

San died from severe head injuries after he was attacked by a group of white youths outside the family’s Chinese takeaway at Lochend in Edinburgh. San’s head hit the ground with fatal force after one attacker, John Reid, 16, struck him with a “poleaxe” blow.

After admitting culpable homicide, Reid was jailed for five years while two other attackers, also 16, had their sentences for assault later cut to 26 and 24 months.

17 August 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Mao Hengfeng was delivered home from detention unconscious and in a wheelchair

provided by: Amnesty International
15th August 2011

The last time Mao Hengfeng was home from jail, the celebration was short-lived. She had roughly two days of freedom before being re-detained on vague charges. Two weeks ago, when Chinese police returned Mao Hengfeng home from her most recent term of “Re-Education through Labor” – it didn’t feel right to celebrate at all. She was home, but she was delivered unconscious in a wheelchair…severely beaten…clearly tortured… barely alive.

It gets worse. Shanghai authorities have been known to return detainees to their homes shortly before they die so that they can later wash their hands of all culpability. Because her release was completely unexpected, Mao’s husband and family could only expect the worst.