12 June 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Court upholds Mehserle conviction in Oscar Grant shooting

originally by: www.ktvu.com
published: 8 June 2012

A state appeals court in San Francisco Friday upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle in the killing of an unarmed passenger in 2009.

Mehserle, 30, has already served his sentence for the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, 22, of Hayward, at BART’s Fruitvale station in Oakland early on New Year’s Day in 2009.

After being convicted in 2010 in a trial that was moved to Los Angeles, Mehserle was sentenced to two years in prison. He was released last year after receiving credits that reduced his time in custody to about a year.

14 April 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Cops pledge CCTV in police vans after campaign

by: The Socialist Worker
published: 13th April 2012

London’s Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has announced his intention to install CCTV cameras in all police cars and vans.

This has been a demand of the families of those who have died in police custody for many years. Hogan-Howe told the LBC radio station, “If we misbehave it will capture it, but, equally, for the people who misbehave or make false allegations, it will capture it.”

But he added, “We have got to have a conversation with our staff because they may feel threatened by that.”

28 March 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Investigation commences after man shot five times by police

originally by: The Voice
published: 23rd March 2012

Following a number of complaints being made over the police shooting a man, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced that an investigation is underway. The 25-year-old man was shot and tasered multiple times by Met police officers in Forest Hill, south London on February 19 after officers responded to an emergency call.