Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

When Arnitra Hollman got a call from her father on Aug. 10, she didn’t know she was listening to his last words.
Earlier that night, Johnny Hollman Sr., a 62-year-old church deacon in Atlanta, had gotten into a minor car crash. He’d already called his daughter twice to update her as he waited for police to arrive.


After an officer arrived, he tried to give Hollman a traffic citation, a move he disagreed with, Atlanta police said. The situation escalated, police said, as Hollman resisted arrest, and the officer used his Taser on Hollman before placing him in handcuffs.

Arnitra Hollman, who’d answered another phone call from her father at 11:57 p.m., said she heard much of the altercation.

During that call, she said she heard her father ask the officer if he was really going to treat an “old man” this way. Then, she heard her father say he couldn’t breathe.
She kept listening as she told her brother, who was living with her at the time, what was happening. They drove together to the scene of the crash, the call still going.


But during the approximately 17-minute drive, Arnitra Hollman felt in her chest that her father was already gone, she said. She couldn’t hear his voice on the phone anymore.


When she got to the scene, she saw her father was not moving. After he was Tasered and handcuffed, Hollman had become unresponsive and was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.


His death in Atlanta — where tensions between residents and law enforcement were already high — sparked calls for the police department to take disciplinary action against the arresting officer, release body-camera video of the incident and revamp its policies for traffic citations.

On Tuesday, two months after Hollman’s death, Police Chief Darin Schierbaum announced that the arresting officer, Kiran Kimbrough, had been fired for “failing to follow the department’s standard operating procedures.”

The termination comes after Hollman’s death was ruled a homicide by the Fulton County medical examiner in an autopsy report late last month. The electrical shock during the arrest and his existing heart disease contributed to his death, according to the autopsy report.


Lance LoRusso, an attorney representing Kimbrough, said the officer “vehemently denies any wrongdoing or policy violations” and plans to appeal his termination……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/11/johnny-hollman-atlanta-officer-fired/