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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.

1 December 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Toni Emma Speck death: Cell death woman ‘needed urgent help’

source: BBC News
published: 27 November 2015

A nurse called to the cell of a woman who later collapsed and died should have realised she needed urgent treatment, an inquest jury has ruled.

Toni Emma Speck, 31, of Huntington, was detained under the Mental Health Act at Fulford Road police station in York on 2 June 2011. She later suffered a cardiac arrest and died in hospital. Her family criticised systematic failings in her care and said she could have lived had she been hospitalised.

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After gag order modified, Jeremy Mardis documents released

source: Town Talk
published: 25 November 2015

Louisiana State Police released on Wednesday morning documents related to the arrests of two Marksville Ward 2 deputy marshals in the shooting death of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis.

The documents, an initial report, warrants and booking sheets for suspects Norris Greenhouse Jr. and Derrick Stafford, were released after 12th Judicial District Judge William Bennett on Tuesday modified a gag order he’d issued weeks before in the cases of both men.

Both men face second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder charges in the death of Jeremy and the shooting of his father, Chris Few.