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A Georgia man who was killed by police inside a Cobb County Walgreens had his hands up, according to friends and family.

Nathain Jenkins, 32, of Valdosta, was shot in a Walgreens store late Friday night, according to the Cobb County police.

“I was on the phone with him. He FaceTimed me. He put me in his pocket,” friend Hayley Glaze told local news station 11 Alive. “Basically, the police had him cornered. They were yelling at him. He was yelling back my hands are up.

“This is uncalled for, especially if his hands were up. He stated his hands were up, and y’all still shot him," Glaze added. "There’s no way he could’ve reached for anything. He’s not like that. He’s not dumb.”…..

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Family demands answers after Georgia man ‘with his hands up’ was shot dead by cops

Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting a probe of the shooting
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I am sure Mr. Jenkins was fully armed in Rambo combat gear and had RPG's pointed at the officers. :rolleyes::cautious::mad1:
 
CNN) — The Jonesboro Police Department in Arkansas has terminated an officer after he was seen on video physically assaulting a detainee in the back of a patrol vehicle.

On Friday, the department “was informed of a complaint about an incident involving a JPD officer that occurred the previous evening,” the department said in a post on Facebook.

“The serious nature of the complaint necessitated prompt action. Following an internal review of the incident, it was determined that the officer involved, Joseph Harris, should be terminated effective immediately,” the police post said…….


 
Optimus Prime said:
The fatal shooting of a pregnant woman by Ohio police last month is drawing new scrutiny to a victim’s rights law that advocates of open government say is being misused by police to hide the identity of officers involved in use-of-force cases.

The family of 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young have questioned why the Blendon Township police officer who fatally shot Young in a grocery store parking lot Aug. 24 has not been publicly named by the department nor fired or criminally charged, despite what they say are clear violations of department policy caught on body-camera footage.


“If we had video evidence of a citizen committing an act that appeared to be a murder, there would not be a long investigation [beforehand]; that suspect would be identified and that suspect would be charged,” said Sean Walton Jr., an attorney for Young’s family.

The two officers involved in the incident are considered victims, thus cannot be identified publicly, Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said in a statement last week, citing the crime victim’s rights amendment known as Marsy’s Law. Belford said he would “defer any policy or employee discipline review” until the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) completed its probe.

The officer who did not fire his weapon is back on active duty after a brief leave because of the staffing needs of the roughly 15-person department, Belford said. The officer who shot Young remains on administrative leave.

At a news conference Wednesday, Walton criticized the way police have used Marsy’s Law, saying it’s not being used for victim privacy, as originally intended, but to shield police who use deadly force from public scrutiny.


“It’s contrary to the public interest and it’s contrary to public safety,” he said.

The first Marsy’s Law — named for 21-year-old Marsalee Nicholas, who was killed by her boyfriend in 1983 — passed in California in 2008 with the aim of expanding victims’ rights under the state constitution.

Those rights included creating notification requirements about a defendant’s parole hearings or release, and allowing crime victims to redact their name, addresses or other identifying information from case-related public records.


More than a dozen states have since adopted Marsy’s Law, including Ohio, where it passed in a 2017 voter referendum and took effect earlier this year.

But as the law has expanded, police departments around the country — including in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin — have sought to use it as cover for officers involved in use-of-force incidents, including several cases this summer.


Between July 6 and Aug. 9, officers with the Columbus Police Department were involved in four separate fatal shootings, Axios reported.

In each case, Marsy’s Law was cited as the reason the officers could not be identified to the public…….


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CNN) — A police officer in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, was indicted by a grand jury on murder charges Tuesday in last year’s killing of a pregnant woman who was suspected of shoplifting, according to the Montgomery County prosecutor’s office.

Ta’Kiya Young, 21, was fatally shot inside her vehicle by an officer in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store in Blendon Township on August 24, 2023. Her unborn child did not survive.

Blendon Township Police Officer Connor Grubb faces four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and two counts of involuntary manslaughter as a result of a grand jury indictment, according to a statement from the office of Prosecuting Attorney Mat Heck Jr……..

 
A mother whose son was having a seizure in his Tennessee apartment said in a federal lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected the 23-year-old to “inhumane acts of violence” instead of treating him, then covered up their use of deadly force.

The death of Austin Hunter Turner was one of more than 1,000 nationally that an investigation led by The Associated Press identified as happening after police officers used physical force or weapons that were supposed to stop, but not kill, people.

The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court, came after AP reporters shared police body-camera video they had unearthed with Turner’s parents, who didn’t know it existed. That footage made the family doubt the official conclusion that a drug overdose killed their son.

Citing the AP’s reporting and many of the details it disclosed, the lawsuit focused on how officers’ own video contradicted the police version of what happened inside Turner’s small apartment in the northeastern Tennessee city of Bristol.……

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Tennessee family's lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son

A Tennessee mother whose son was having a seizure in his apartment says in a new lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected him to “inhumane acts of violence.”
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Two Alaska State Troopers have been charged with assault for pepper spraying, beating and ordering a dog to bite a man who they wrongly believed had a warrant out for his arrest in an allegation of police violence that the state’s top public safety authority called unprecedented.


Joseph Miller, 49, and Jason Woodruff, 42, were charged with fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor, for beating 37-year-old Ben Tikka in Kenai, Alaska, according to charging documents filed this week.


After the incident, Tikka reported an open bite on his left arm, multiple fractures and lacerations on his triceps and head. The troopers mistook Tikka for his cousin, who has the same last name.


James Cockrell, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, said in a news conference Thursday that he put both troopers on administrative leave and had been the one to refer their cases for a criminal investigation.


“I was totally sickened by what I saw,” he said, adding that they caused significant injuries. “I’ve been with this department for 33 years, and I’ve never seen any action like this before.”………

 
Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police officers across Englandand Wales than their white counterparts, according to the latest nationwide figures disclosed by a watchdog.

The children’s commissioner also found that children under the age of 15 are a bigger proportion of those subjected to intimate searches, official figures from the year to June 2023 showed. Fewer than half of all searches of children in that year (45%) were conducted in the presence of an appropriate adult.

A report released on Monday also found that nearly nine out of every 10 of searches [88%] conducted by England and Wales’s 44 forces were trying to find drugs.


It said that over the five years to June 2023, children as young as eight have been strip-searched every 14 hours by police in England. More than 3,000 intimate procedures were conducted on children between January 2018 and June 2023.

In response to the report, the police made a stark admission and said that “too many strip searches carried out are unnecessary, unsafe and under-reported”.

The practice of child strip searches prompted a national outcry after the Child Q scandal, when it emerged in 2022 that a 15-year-old black girl was strip-searched at school for drugs in east London. No cannabis, the grounds for the search, was found.

Assistant chief constable Andrew Mariner, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for stop and search, said: “Two years on from the shocking case of Child Q, we are seeing progress being made. I welcome this shift, and I am cautiously optimistic about the potential to overcome entrenched systemic challenges, but there is still urgent work to be done: too many strip searches carried out are unnecessary, unsafe and under-reported.……

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Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show

Children’s commissioner finds wide disparity with white counterparts in year to June 2023, with 88% of searches aimed at finding drugs
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Optimus Prime said:
Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police officers across Englandand Wales than their white counterparts, according to the latest nationwide figures disclosed by a watchdog.

The children’s commissioner also found that children under the age of 15 are a bigger proportion of those subjected to intimate searches, official figures from the year to June 2023 showed. Fewer than half of all searches of children in that year (45%) were conducted in the presence of an appropriate adult.

A report released on Monday also found that nearly nine out of every 10 of searches [88%] conducted by England and Wales’s 44 forces were trying to find drugs.


It said that over the five years to June 2023, children as young as eight have been strip-searched every 14 hours by police in England. More than 3,000 intimate procedures were conducted on children between January 2018 and June 2023.

In response to the report, the police made a stark admission and said that “too many strip searches carried out are unnecessary, unsafe and under-reported”.

The practice of child strip searches prompted a national outcry after the Child Q scandal, when it emerged in 2022 that a 15-year-old black girl was strip-searched at school for drugs in east London. No cannabis, the grounds for the search, was found.

Assistant chief constable Andrew Mariner, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for stop and search, said: “Two years on from the shocking case of Child Q, we are seeing progress being made. I welcome this shift, and I am cautiously optimistic about the potential to overcome entrenched systemic challenges, but there is still urgent work to be done: too many strip searches carried out are unnecessary, unsafe and under-reported.……

www.theguardian.com

Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show

Children’s commissioner finds wide disparity with white counterparts in year to June 2023, with 88% of searches aimed at finding drugs
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Had no idea strip-searches were a thing. Crazy.
 
The city of New Orleans was ordered by a federal jury on Wednesday to pay $1m to a teenager who was sexually assaulted by one of the city’s policeofficers in 2020.

The federal civil trial, which was brought against the city by the teenager’s family on her behalf, began on Monday and lasted three days.

The jury deliberated for about three hours before reaching its verdict and found the city liable for hiring and failing to stop one of its officers, who had a criminal past, from molesting the teenager, and ordered the city to pay $1m to the victim, according to Nola.com.


The officer in question, Rodney Vicknair, died in prison earlier this year from brain cancer. He served less than six months of his 14-year sentence after pleading guilty to violating the teenager’s rights by sexually abusing her in 2020.

Vicknair met the teenager in May 2020 – when he was 53 and she was 14. He was was working and escorted her to undergo a forensic examination known as a rape kit after another man had sexually assaulted her, authorities said.

Vicknair then gave the girl his cellphone number, and in the months that followed, authorities say that they spoke on the phone and exchanged messages, and he would often stop by her house, unannounced and uniformed.

Over time, he allegedly made sexual comments to her, asked her for sexually suggestive photographs and exposed his genitals to her on video calls.

In September 2020, Vicknair arrived at the house of the teenager – who had then turned 15 – and told her to get into his vehicle, court documentsstate, and then federal prosecutors say he then locked the door and sexually assaulted her.

During the civil trial this week, the victim reportedly testified that Vicknair sexually assaulted her four times, according to WDSU News.

Vicknair was arrested in September of 2020 by his own agency on state counts of sexual battery, indecent behavior with a juvenile and malfeasance in office, and he was also suspended from the force. Federal authorities then charged him and he pleaded guilty in November 2022.…….

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New Orleans ordered to pay $1m to teen who was sexually assaulted by cop

Rodney Vicknair, who died earlier this year of cancer, was serving 14 years in prison for the crime
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DJ1BigTymer said:
PSA: Please remember that gun laws in this country are not applicable to all of its citizens!

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Police Who Shot Florida Airman 6 Times in His Home May Have Entered Wrong Apartment, Family Says

Senior Airman Roger Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the Florida panhandle flies AC-130J Ghostrider gunships.
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A Florida sheriff’s deputy is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting of a US air force member who opened his apartment door while holding a gun.

The former Okaloosa county deputy Eddie Duranwas charged on Friday in the 3 May shooting death of senior airman Roger Fortson, assistant state attorney Greg Marcille said. That is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Marcille said a warrant has been issued for Duran’s arrest, but he was not in custody as of early Friday afternoon.


Fortson, 23, was Black. Duran listed himself as Hispanic on his voter registration, and the charging documents released on Friday also identify him that way.

“I think this is the best that we could have hoped for in this particular case,” said Sabu Williams, president of the local branch of the NAACP.

“I believe that the charge is appropriate,” Williams told the Associated Press. “I think manslaughter was right on point.”…….

www.theguardian.com

Florida police officer charged with manslaughter over Black airman’s killing

Eddie Duran charged over death of Roger Fortson, who was shot multiple times when he opened apartment door
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Optimus Prime said:
A Florida sheriff’s deputy is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting of a US air force member who opened his apartment door while holding a gun.

The former Okaloosa county deputy Eddie Duranwas charged on Friday in the 3 May shooting death of senior airman Roger Fortson, assistant state attorney Greg Marcille said. That is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Marcille said a warrant has been issued for Duran’s arrest, but he was not in custody as of early Friday afternoon.


Fortson, 23, was Black. Duran listed himself as Hispanic on his voter registration, and the charging documents released on Friday also identify him that way.

“I think this is the best that we could have hoped for in this particular case,” said Sabu Williams, president of the local branch of the NAACP.

“I believe that the charge is appropriate,” Williams told the Associated Press. “I think manslaughter was right on point.”…….

www.theguardian.com

Florida police officer charged with manslaughter over Black airman’s killing

Eddie Duran charged over death of Roger Fortson, who was shot multiple times when he opened apartment door
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What truly pisses me off about this is that their own Internal Affairs section found the shooting unjustified and fired this dude within 3weeks of the murder. Yet, it took an additional 3 months for Florida prosecutors to charge him for the homicide.

That is a FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP by all elected Florida officials!
 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 40 years for a former Memphis police officer who pleaded guilty Friday to federal civil rights violations in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.

Emmitt Martin is the second former officer to plead guilty in the killing that sparked outrage and renewed calls for police reform. Three former officers still face trial in federal court next month, and two of their former colleagues could testify against them.

Martin entered his change of plea before U.S. District Judge Mark Norris in Memphis under an agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to excessive force and witness tampering charges. Sentencing is set for Dec. 5.

Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, was in the courtroom. She nodded her head and smiled when the judge accepted Martin’s change of plea.……

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A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols' death. He could serve 40 years in prison

A second former Memphis police officer has pleaded guilty to civil rights violations in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
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