13 August 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Shot in head, death arrests and police cover-ups

all credits: Siân Ruddick
originally published: 9th August 2011

The police, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have a long history of cover-ups. There have been 333 deaths in police custody since 1998.

No police officer has been prosecuted for any of them.

Many names are unknown to most people in Britain. But some have hit the headlines. On 22 July 2005 Jean Charles De Menezes was shot seven times in the head on an underground train at Stockwell, south London.

The police claimed that Jean Charles was concealing a bomb under a bulky jacket. Neither the bomb nor the jacket existed. But even after the inquest the IPCC refused to recommend even disciplinary actions against the police who shot him.

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9 August 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Mark Duggan did not shoot at police, says the IPCC

originally by: The Guardian
9th August 2011

Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police sparked London’s riots, did not fire a shot at police officers before they killed him, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said on Tuesday.

Releasing the initial findings of ballistics tests, the police watchdog said a CO19 firearms officer fired two bullets, and that a bullet that lodged in a police radio was “consistent with being fired from a police gun”.

One theory, not confirmed by the IPCC, is that the bullet became lodged in the radio from a ricochet or after passing through Duggan.

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9 August 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

US investigates death of homeless man in police custody

originally by M&G News
4th August 2011

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating the death of a homeless man who succumbed to severe injures after being arrested in California, a news report said.

Six policemen from Fullerton, 50 kilometres south-east of Los Angeles, have been put on administrative leave in connection with the incident, broadcaster CNN reported late Wednesday. The arrest of Kelly Thomas, 37, on July 5, was captured on film by bystanders and the surveillance camera of a nearby bus stop.

A witness said she saw officers administer five electric shocks to him with a tazer. In the footage, which does not show the full incident, Thomas is seen apparently distressed and shouting for his father.