20 July 201721 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police officers face no charges over the death of James Herbert

source: SomersetLive
published: 18 July 2017

An investigation into the death of Wells man James Herbert has concluded no criminal charges are warranted against any of the Avon and Somerset police officers involved in his care.

It has been seven years since James Herbert was found dead in a police cell in Yeovil and this week the CPS confirmed it had ruled out any legal action against Avon and Somerset Police.

James Herbert died on June 10, 2010, after being detained under the Mental Health Act after being seen acting strangely in a street in Wells. He was restrained by police and placed in the back of patrol van and driven almost 30 miles to Yeovil police station before being carried on a blanket into a cell.

20 July 201721 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Officers won’t face federal charges in killing of mentally ill man

source: New York Times
published: 18 July 2017

Two police officers in Albuquerque will not face federal charges in the 2014 shooting death of James Boyd, a homeless man with paranoid schizophrenia, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

“After a careful and thorough review into the facts surrounding the shooting, federal investigators determined that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a violation of the federal statute,” the United States attorney’s office in New Mexico said in a statement announcing the closing of an inquiry into possible criminal civil rights violations.

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27 June 201721 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Michael Brown’s family reaches settlement in wrongful-death lawsuit

source: CBS News
published: 20 June 2017

A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting by a white police officer nearly three years ago in Ferguson, Missouri, set off months of protests.

Financial details of the settlement approved Tuesday by U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber were not disclosed. Anthony Gray, the attorney for Brown’s parents, declined comment, as did Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III.

Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley McSpadden sued the city, former Police Chief Tom Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson in 2015.