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Police watchdog investigates death of man in Birmingham

originally by: BBC News
3rd April 2011

Kingsley Burrell Brown was detained under the Mental Health Act last Sunday after officers attended an incident on Iknield Port Road, Birmingham. He was admitted to a unit in the city and later moved to a hospital where he died on Thursday, police said. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said post-mortem test results may be known early next week.

Maxi Hayles, chairman of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, told BBC News Mr Brown’s family were waiting to be told what caused his death at the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The IPCC said it had started an investigation into the circumstances around his death.

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Supreme Court declines case of Troy Davis

originally by: The Christian Science Monitor
published: 28th March 2011

The US Supreme Court on dismissed the appeal of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, whose loud and persistent claims of innocence attracted the support of death penalty opponents around the world and forced a series of extra hearings to investigate his case. In the end, court after court rejected his pleas.

On Monday the high court, without comment, dismissed three appeals filed on Mr. Davis’s behalf. The action opens the way for Georgia authorities to set an execution date. Davis was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1989 shooting death of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail. He’s been on death row since 1991.

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More than 1,000 meet to demand answers over Smiley Culture’s death

originally by: Socialist Worker
25th March 2011

How did Smiley Culture die? Around 1,000 people demanded the answer to this at an angry meeting in Brixton, south London, last night, Thursday. Several hundred were unable to enter the packed room in Lambeth Town Hall. The vast majority of those who attended were local black people. The meeting was organised by the Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture.

Reggae artist David Emmanuel, also known as Smiley Culture, died during a police raid on his house in Surrey on 15 March. Police claim he stabbed himself in the heart while alone in the kitchen. His family want a full public inquiry.