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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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The government is accused of a ‘cover up’ behind Grenfell fire

source: Socialist Worker
published: 8 December 2021

The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017 has heard the government carried out a “deliberate cover-up” over the dangers from combustible materials.

The final stage of the public inquiry is now looking at the role of government figures and what happened around building regulations. Combustible materials used for housing were not scrutinised as a result of decades of deregulation.

Stephanie Barwise QC said Grenfell was the result of the government’s “unbridled passion for deregulation” and a “prolonged period of concealment”. Michael Mansfield QC, representing some of the bereaved and survivors, said the government [simply] saw health and safety laws “as an obstruction to businesses”.

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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.