8 August 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Outrage in US as man is shot in head while handcuffed in police car

originally by: The Telegraph
published: 8 August 2012

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets to protest an official explanation of suicide in the death of Chavis Carter, 21, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Mr Carter was pulled over by police late last month and searched twice by officers who discovered a small $10 bag of marijuana.

He was also wanted for skipping probation on another drugs charge. He had his hands cuffed behind his back and put into a police car.

Michael Yates, the police chief, has conceded that a “very unusual” chain of events led up to the later discovery of Mr Carter was found slumped in the back of the police car with a bullet wound in his head.

21 June 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Custody death man ‘bashed by police’

originally by: The Australian
published: 21 June 2012

An Aboriginal man who died in police custody had been bashed by officers in the weeks before his death and was fearful of them, an inquest into his death has been told. On Thursday the aunt of Kwementyaye Briscoe, who died at the Alice Springs watch house on January 4, spoke in court about the death.

“He had been attacked by two police offices in the company of his girlfriend,” Patricia Morton-Thomas said. “If he ran on the night he died I would suggest it was because he was afraid.”

Ms Morton-Thomas said things needed to change in Alice Springs, with every single member of her family experiencing police persecution in the past.

12 June 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Court upholds Mehserle conviction in Oscar Grant shooting

originally by: www.ktvu.com
published: 8 June 2012

A state appeals court in San Francisco Friday upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle in the killing of an unarmed passenger in 2009.

Mehserle, 30, has already served his sentence for the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, 22, of Hayward, at BART’s Fruitvale station in Oakland early on New Year’s Day in 2009.

After being convicted in 2010 in a trial that was moved to Los Angeles, Mehserle was sentenced to two years in prison. He was released last year after receiving credits that reduced his time in custody to about a year.