26 February 202222 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Jury convicts 3 former officers of violating George Floyd’s civil rights

all credits: Kearney Hub
published: 24 February 2022

Three former Minneapolis police officers have been convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed and facedown on the street on May 25, 2020.

Tou Thao and Thomas Lane were also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin.

The killing sparked protests in Minneapolis that spread around the globe as part of reckoning over racial injustice. Chauvin was convicted of murder last year in state court and pleaded guilty in December in the federal case.

1 January 202222 December 2022 4WardEverUK

LAPD release video from fatal shooting of 14-year-old in Burlington dressing room

source: New York Post
published: 27 December 2021

The Los Angeles Police Department have released store and body camera footage that showed the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl who was struck by a stray bullet while in a Burlington store dressing room.

Officials said that 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta was killed by a bullet that skipped off the floor and pierced the wall when officers shot at an armed suspect in the North Hollywood store on 23 Dec 2021.

Daniel Elena-Lopez, 24, attacked several shoppers with a heavy-duty cable lock and was wielding it when police arrived.

In the graphic, 35-minute LAPD video, blood-curdling screams could be heard from inside the dressing room area where Valentina and her mother were hiding – right behind a wall where officers fatally shot Elena-Lope.

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Third probe over Anthony Grainger shooting clears officers

all credits: Bolton News
published: 30 November 2021

A third probe into the death of former Bolton man Anthony Grainger has cleared police over the use of a CS gas canister. Several matters were referred by GMP to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after the public inquiry into Grainger’s 2012 shooting.

Two officers were quizzed over the use of an unauthorised CS gas canisters during a police operation in Culcheth that night. The canisters were used to deliver CS gas into vehicles, Before then live rounds had been deployed.

An IOPC inquiry has now ruled the pair “had not acted in bad faith” over the canisters. [Although] it was not authorised but paperwork had been filed over their usage.