27 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Mark Duggan’s mother: police report is ‘another slap in the face’

Mark Duggan & Family — Mark Duggan and family members

source: The Guardian
published: 25 March 2015

The mother of Mark Duggan, who was shot fatally by police, has described Wednesday’s report from the police watchdog clearing the officers of any wrongdoing as “another slap in the face” for her family. Pam Duggan said the family had cooperated with the Independent Police Complaints Commission, but had been “let down again”.

The IPCC report said Mark Duggan – whose 2011 shooting in Tottenham, north London, sparked the worst riots of recent times across cities and towns in England – was probably in the process of throwing away a handgun when he was shot.

11 February 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

High-powered attorney calls for renewed investigation into Chavis Carter death

source: Region 8 News
published: 11 February 2015

Tuesday night served as a call for a renewed investigation and more attention for the Chavis Carter case.

“When people feel like they cannot trust the local law enforcement authorities, they turn to the federal government to say we want equal justice too,” Benjamin Crump said at New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Jonesboro Tuesday evening.

Crump is connected to high-profile cases like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

Carter’s family, now with Crump on the case, is cautiously optimistic that the Jonesboro Police Department will be properly investigated and reviewed.

8 February 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Habib Ullah officer ‘had had no training in searching suspects’ mouths’

source: Bucks Free Press
published: 6 February 2015

A police officer involved in the restraint of a man who died in police custody told an inquest he had received no training in how to search for an item concealed in someone’s mouth.

DC Richard Bazeley was one of a number of Thames Valley Police officers who restrained Habib Ullah during a stop and search in High Wycombe, during which a packet of drugs became lodged in Mr Ullah’s throat.

During the restraint Mr Ullah was repeatedly slapped on the back to get him to cough up the packet, before another officer tried to prise his mouth open, the inquest heard on Tuesday.