17 February 201621 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Sarah Reed told family of alleged sexual assault in hospital

source: The Guardian
published: 4 February 2016

The prisoner on remand who died in her cell last month wrote to her family to say she had been sexually assaulted while receiving treatment at a secure mental health unit.

The Guardian has learned that Sarah Reed, 32, was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent over the incident in October after striking back at her alleged abuser. But rather than being released back into a secure hospital, she was held on remand at Holloway prison, north London, where she was found dead on 11 January.

Reed’s family, who she wrote to from jail, insist that she was acting in self defence.

1 January 201621 December 2022 4WardEverUK

As protesters keep vigil, police admit accidentally killing activist

source: Washington Post
published: 27 December 2015

Bettie Jones was known as a community activist who spent her free time speaking out on issues such as police brutality that affected black Chicagoans on the far West Side, where she lived all her life, and who often attended vigils for people killed in street violence.

But on Sunday, dozens of people kept vigil for her.

Jones, 55, and Quintonio LeGrier, her 19-year-old upstairs neighbor, both were killed by police early Saturday morning. Police said Jones “was accidentally struck and tragically killed” by bullets fired by a police officer responding to a call of a domestic disturbance at her building’s address.

28 September 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

New concerns on the Tilson Gardens Police Shooting

source: London Campaign Against Police & State Violence
published: 23 September 2015

Since our last update on the incident on the 21st August, when the police shot a Brixton resident, there have been further reports in The Guardian and Daily Mirror.

Both papers named the victim as Nathaniel Brophy, a 34 year old mixed race man, and quoted remarks from his father Patrice Duval.

These reports raise new concerns:

The victim was surrendering

The police and IPCC had previously emphasised the claim that they found a “non police firearm” at the site, and used this to imply that Mr Brophy was threatening them, and had to be shot to prevent him doing harm.