Custody Deaths & Abuse

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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.

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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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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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