25 April 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Neighbours baffled by fatal shooting of Bradford dad

handgun by: Bradford Telegraph
published: 6 April 2013

The fatal shooting of a Bradford dad has baffled and confused folk who knew him only as a good neighbour.

Colin Berry, father of three young children, died after unarmed police arrived at his Clayton home to carry out a search for drugs on Thursday lunchtime. It is thought there was a struggle, during which a firearm went off and killed Mr Berry.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission yesterday launched an investigation into the early shooting at the detached house in Buckingham Crescent which fatally wounded 49-year-old Mr Berry.

8 January 201320 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Lawyer likens Marikana shooting to apartheid massacre

source: The Guardian
published: 6 January 2013

When South Africa’s apartheid police massacred 69 people in Sharpeville in 1960, the revulsion spread as far as northern England. James Nichol, then 15, took part in his first street protest.

“I remember there were about 20 of us and I think we marched in single file with a placard each around Newcastle because there wasn’t really enough for a demonstration,” he said.

More than 50 years later, Nichol, a criminal lawyer, has travelled to South Africa to stand up for the victims of another state-sponsored massacre of protesters.

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12 December 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Another handcuffed young man manages to shoot himself?

originally by: SALON
published: 6 December 2012

A perturbing trend is emerging in the South. Twice in six months, young men have managed to shoot themselves in the head while in handcuffs in the back of police cars, after having been searched for weapons. For many critical observers, the circumstances beggar belief.

In August of this year, police in Jonesboro, Ark. claimed that Chavis Carter, 21, committed suicide while in the back of a patrol car. He was handcuffed at the time and had already been searched for weapons.