A civil jury trial date has officially been set on August 2, 2021,for the January 1, 2009, New Orleans NOPD shooting 82 40 caliber low trajectory angle shots into Adolph Grimes III body.
Tag: Government & State
‘Excited delirium’: term linked to police restraint condemned
Public health bodies, charities and the families of men who died after being restrained by police have condemned the inclusion of a controversial medical term in one of the UK’s leading medical handbooks.
From George Orwell to Priti Patel: How Britain brought its colonial policing home
As the Met Police is judged to be institutionally corrupt, Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes explore how some of the biggest problems still plaguing British policing are embedded in British colonialism.
MPs continue to debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
This month, MPs continue to debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is an extensive, lengthy, and highly concerning piece of legislation that would risk violating the UK’s human rights.
UN calls for end of ‘impunity’ for police violence against black people
A UN report that analysed racial justice in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd has called on member states including the UK to end the “impunity” enjoyed by police officers who violate the human rights.
New protest restrictions breach human rights, say MPs and peers
A legislative scrutiny report on the public order section of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, published today, says proposed restrictions on protests are “inconsistent with human rights.”
President Biden said ‘no’ to the death penalty. Now what?
Its become much more difficult to figure out what the Biden administration plans to do about the death penalty, even though the president and attorney general previously had left little doubt.
Survivors mark four year anniversary of Grenfell tower fire tragedy
Grenfell survivors and campaigners have said it was a “shocking scandal” that four years after the disaster thousands of people are still living in buildings covered in flammable cladding.
