8 January 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Stephen Lawrence murder: 20th anniversary to be marked

originally by: BBC News
published: 4 January 2013

The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has begun a campaign to mark the 20th anniversary of his death. Doreen Lawrence said she wants to ensure no other family has to go through what she endured.

The campaign will include talking to new police commissioners and a memorial service on 22 April – the date Stephen was killed in Eltham in 1993

The announcement comes exactly a year after Gary Dobson and David Norris were convicted of his murder.

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19 June 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Rodney King, key figure in L.A. riots, dead at 47

originally by: Detroit Free Press
published: 17 June 2012

Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, has died, his publicist said today. King was 47. His death was confirmed to the Associated Press by Suzanne Wickham of Harper Collins, who published King’s 2012 book ‘The Riot Within .My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption.’

The 1992 riots, set off by the acquittals of the officers, lasted three days and left 55 people dead, more than 2,000 injured and swaths of Los Angeles on fire. At the height of the violence, King pleaded on television: “Can we all get along?”

19 March 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Costco shooting victim’s family drops lawsuit against Las Vegas police

originally by: ReviewJournal.com
published: 13th March 2012

Family members of Erik Scott, who was shot and killed by officers outside a Costco store in 2010, dropped their lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday, ending one of the most controversial chapters in the agency’s history.

The lawsuit wasn’t strong enough to withstand the appeals process, family members said.

“It’s not the slam-dunk case that everybody thought it was when we started,” said Bill Scott, Erik Scott’s father. “If there was a different appeals court involved, I think we could have pressed ahead.”