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A Police Web of Lies?

Police ShieldSubmitted by a reader & adapted by 4WardEver UK
20th March 2011

The following brief statements and supporting videos were submitted by one of our readers following an appalling altercation with police officers on his own front door. 4WardEver UK has published these statements and provided additional news highlights to further illustrate the concerns raised.

Also take a look at a Private Eye article to which our reader states “My videos are just the tip of the iceberg. An article from Private eye documents some other incredibly serious aspects of this matter; its title ‘web of lies’ is very apt and relates to police actions in relation to the sexual grooming of children”.

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LAPD killing of autistic man was wrong, Police Commission rules

Police SWAT Armor & Rifleall credits: Los Angeles Times
5th March 2011

The civilian commission that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department has taken the rare step of rejecting a recommendation from the department’s chief, ruling that two police officers were wrong when they fatally shot an unarmed autistic man last year.

Police Chief Charlie Beck concluded after a lengthy internal investigation that the officers made serious tactical mistakes during the brief, late-night encounter, but ultimately were justified in using deadly force against Steven Eugene Washington, 27.

The shooting drew sharp criticism from Washington’s family, who said the man was autistic and fearful of strangers. Civil liberties groups questioned the shooting, suggesting that the officers may have overreacted because they had not observed Washington doing anything criminal.

“Police Commission overrules chief, says LAPD shooting was wrong”

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New centres ‘to detain child asylum seekers’ and families

Refugee & Iron Wire Fenceoriginally by: The Independent
4th February 2011

The Coalition is accused of watering down its promise to end the detention of child asylum seekers by setting up new centres to detain families refusing to leave the UK. The new “pre-departure accommodation facilities” will be run under a more lax system than the current imprisonment of failed asylum seekers and their offspring.

But the families will still be kept in “secure” units behind high fences for up to a week, reigniting concern over the Coalition’s flagship policy of ending child detention, announced by Nick Clegg in a fanfare of publicity last year.

Campaigners have long warned over the physical and mental impact of detention on children, 1,000 of whom were being held in British centres at the height of the practice in 2009.

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