Miami-Dade police said Tuesday that an officer
fired her Taser stun gun repeatedly at a 16-year-old car theft suspect,
including two electrical discharges administered after he had been
knocked to the ground but continued to resist. The incident, which took
place Nov. 17 in South Miami-Dade County after the teen was caught
driving a stolen car, prompted a police brutality complaint on Monday.
Police said the teen was Larue Stokes III of Homestead. While the
police statement confirmed Stokes' allegations -- that he was zapped
several times while on the ground -- it did not say when he was
handcuffed. Stokes claimed an unidentified female detective zapped him
after the restraints were placed on his wrists. In their account of the
incident, police said the use of the Taser, which delivers a
50,000-volt charge, was justified. According to their statement,
detectives chased Stokes and two others after the three bailed out of a
stolen car near Southwest 236th Street and 127th Avenue. Stokes ran
into some woods, ignoring commands to stop. The woman detective fired
her Taser at him, but the two electrical probes that carry the charge
didn't make a connection. She reloaded and fired again, this time
striking the teen in his chest, according to the police account.
Stokes' father said Tuesday he didn't find the police account credible,
and he denied his son didn't respect officers' commands. ''How are you
going to be shot in the chest while you're running away?'' said Larue
Stokes Sr.''My
son has no reason to lie about being handcuffed,'' Kelly Stokes said.
``They have totally shattered him. He is willing to take a lie detector
test. Are the police?'' Larue Stokes said he has 18 burn marks on his
body. He said he was also hit in the leg by a police cruiser after
bailing out of the stolen car, which he was driving. [more]
A disturbed man who was arrested for trying to
break into an occupied car in Brooklyn died shortly after being
handcuffed by cops, officials said yesterday. Craig Davis, 35, had a
seizure as he was being arrested around 4 p.m. Thursday and died 90
minutes later at Brookdale University Hospital, police said. Several
witnesses spotted Davis acting erratically as he walked along E. 95th
St. in Remsen Village before he tried to get into a car stopped at a
red light, police said. Responding to a 911 call of an attempted car
theft, two 67th Precinct cops rushed to the scene and confronted Davis,
who took a swing at one of them, police said. Davis was apprehended
after a brief struggle and then went into his seizure. Paramedics sped
him to Brookdale. The results of the autopsy performed by the city
medical examiner were not released. Sources said Davis, who has a prior
arrest for robbery, was believed to have been enrolled in a drug
treatment program. It was not clear if he had other health problems,
sources said. Several people who described themselves as members of
Davis' family declined to talk at his Brownsville home yesterday. His
death, which is still under investigation, came just four days after
43-year-old Jose Feliciano, an epileptic homeless man, was gunned down
by a patrolman in East New York. [more]
Phoenix police asked the Maricopa County Attorney's Office on
Wednesday to determine whether criminal charges should be filed against
two police officers for their actions caught on videotape during the
arrest of a 22-year-old assault and carjacking suspect on
Tuesday. The 12 News video shows officers hitting and elbowing
Jaime Jimenez, a Mexican national who was already handcuffed. Jimenez
is accused of assaulting and robbing a pregnant woman at gunpoint
outside a supermarket near 43rd Avenue and McDowell Road. Phoenix
police are conducting an internal investigation into the incident and
will forward their report to the County Attorney's Office when it's
complete. Some Hispanic leaders said that such
behavior can't be condoned. "If I went out and did that . . . it
would absolutely be criminal conduct," said attorney Stephen Montoya,
who called a description of the incident a classic case of assault and
battery. "Just because a police officer does it doesn't make it
trivial." According to police descriptions of the
two officers, the video shows: Officer Steven Huddleston, 31, lunging
into Jimenez, who appears to be facing a wall, with his hands in the
air; An officer striking Jimenez in the upper body; An officer
putting his foot on Jimenez's midsection; Officer Thomas Beck, 32,
holding his fist on Jimenez's neck, putting a large amount of weight on
it; Beck punching him in the groin after rolling him in the dirt while
searching his pockets; Huddleston, 31, standing on the back of
Jimenez's left knee; Huddleston elbowing Jimenez in the face as he was
walked to the patrol car. Jimenez suffered no serious injuries, police
said, and was booked into a Maricopa County jail on charges of
kidnapping, armed robbery and assault. [more]
After the controversial shooting of an
undocumented immigrant, Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne met with Mexican
officials last week to discuss ways to ensure foreign nationals
involved in police action meet with their consular officers. "We met
with [Jenne], who was very concerned about the shooting and he was open
to how consular notification should be interpreted and applied,"
Mexican Consul General Jorge Lomonaco said on Thursday. "He wanted our
help in enlisting Spanish-speaking recruits and in coming up with
classes that deal with racial profiling." The meeting, which a
Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed, was prompted by the Nov. 3
shooting of a Mexican national outside the Whispering Isles apartment
complex in Pompano Beach. Deputies approached him and another man after
they mistakenly tried to enter the wrong apartment. An attorney for the
men, who are undocumented immigrants, said they were returning home
from their first day at work and were confused about which building
they lived in. One of the men, Germán Gómez, remains hospitalized with
a gunshot wound to the head, barely able to speak and unable to move
much of his body. The second man, his cousin Javier Dominguez, was
detained for several hours by the Sheriff's Office and threatened with
deportation. It remains unclear whether he was informed of his right to
contact the consulate for help. [more]
Seven people are scheduled to go on trial this
week for their roles a May 30 altercation outside a nightclub that has
strained relations between black residents and city police. Police say
the incident began outside the Magic Moments club when two men ran from
officers. Police had come to the scene to clear vehicles blocking
Orange Street in a predominantly black section of Richmond. One of the
men was identified as Larry E. Sims Jr., 19. He and another man got
into a sport utility vehicle owned by Natasha Miller, Sims' girlfriend.
Miller was body-slammed by a Richmond police officer after a gun had
fallen out of her boyfriend's clothing. Angry bystanders, some of whom
were leaving a nightclub down the street, were pepper-sprayed by
police, and seven people were arrested. In the six months since the
incident, there have been protests at city hall, forums held to discuss
racial issues, indirect apologies, mediation from the U.S. Department
of Justice and an FBI investigation. Both police officials and
residents expect the charges to be dropped before trial. But even as a
deal neared completion last week, some residents said relations with
the department had not improved. [more]
After a man said two police officers used
excessive force during his arrest, the officers have been removed from
their patrol assignments and given desk duty while an internal
investigation is conducted. Following allegations of police brutality,
two officers were pulled off street duty on Nov. 19 and given desk
assignments pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.
The excessive force accusations against Officers Elio Cruz and German
Gutierrez were made by Guillermo Cartagena, 25, who was arrested by the
pair on Nov. 7 on the street outside a popular South Beach nightclub.
The encounter left Cartagena with a broken nose and other injuries,
according to his lawyer. The two men normally work as patrol officers
on the afternoon shift, but will be working in the police station until
the investigation is finished, police said. Hernandez said the
two officers were working off-duty as outdoor security for Opium
Garden. According to the arrest report, Cartagena became unruly when
asked to leave the premises, and club security asked Cruz and Gutierrez
for help. According to the arrest report, Cartagena claimed he was a
New York City police officer, then swung at the officers, striking
Gutierrez in the chest and Cruz in the shoulder. Cruz punched Cartagena
in the face, then used a Taser stun gun on Cartagena while he was on
the ground because he continued to kick and fight, police said. Among
other injuries, Cartagena's nose was broken and multiple teeth were
chipped, his lawyer Keith Seltzer said. ' [more]
A Shelby police officer shot a man Wednesday afternoon during a
struggle to take the man to a mental health facility. Shelby police
officer Sean Mowery shot Milton Gaines, known as "Karate Man," who was
then transported to Cleveland Regional Medical Center. Some witnesses
said Gaines was shot in the torso, although Shelby Police Chief Tandy
Carter could not confirm that Wednesday evening. "The officer was
defending himself," Carter said at the scene near the intersection of
Logan and Crawford streets. "If you feel your life is threatened, you
can use deadly force. That's why we carry guns." Gaines had been in and
out of mental health facilities, neighbors said. They said he lived
alone and they didn't consider him a threat. He walked along the street
talking about religion, they said. About 4:20 p.m., Mowery arrived at
Gaines' home at 505 Crawford St., a few blocks east of Cleveland
Regional Medical Center, to serve involuntary commitment papers that
would force Gaines to undergo psychiatric treatment. Gaines became
combative and Mowery called for backup, Carter said. The two got into a
struggle and Mowery defended himself by shooting Gaines, Carter said.
Gaines lives alone and most mornings can be seen performing T'ai Chi, a
form of martial arts, in his front yard, neighbors said. "He doesn't
bother anybody," Torie Woods, a neighbor, said. "He walks around and
talks to anybody. There was no need to shoot him." Dozens of Shelby
police officers, Cleveland County Sheriff's Office deputies and
emergency medical services workers raced to the scene. A crowd gathered
and watched as ambulances carried Mowery and Gaines away. [more]
Antonio Manrique, a quiet grandfather who spoke limited English, died
from a beating at the hands of two Blue Island police officers,
according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Thursday by his family. The
lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court says the officers beat Manrique,
74, about the head and torso with their fists and batons, causing
internal bleeding and blood clots that ultimately led to his death.
City officials declined to comment on the suit, which stems from an
Oct. 6 incident in which two officers, Charles Sykes and Berni Rzab,
responded to a call in the 2300 block of West Krueger Street about gang
graffiti. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers encountered two men
in a dark alley and called out to both of them to stop, police
reported. One man tried to flee on a bicycle, and the other, Manrique,
was reported to have "trotted away." He was subsequently tackled to the
ground, the police report said. The officers were driving an unmarked
car and were not in uniform, said attorney Timothy Tomasik, who
represents Manrique's family. Manrique appeared to be shaking after the
incident, the police report said. He told officers he was suffering
from a diabetic attack. "By all accounts, he was not violating any
law," Tomasik said. "He was not threatening anyone." He was not charged
with a crime. Tomasik described Manrique as a gentle and frail man who
had an unsteady gait and would tremble when he walked. "This is a case
of a grandfather who is now dead because police officers exercised
extreme and excessive force, killing an innocent elderly gentleman," he
said. Manrique, a Mexican immigrant, suffered several broken ribs
during the confrontation and was taken to the hospital. He was covered
in cuts and bruises, Tomasik said. Manrique died four days later. [more]
The families of three teens killed during a pursuit three years ago
filed a wrongful death suit Wednesday against the St. Louis police,
claiming a patrol car bumped the fleeing auto and triggered a
wreck. On Nov. 17, 2001, officials said, Tyra Young, Darren
Allen, and Martes Mosley were in a stolen Pontiac Grand Am when it
crashed into a parked Salvation Army van and fire hydrant in the 4500
block of Martin Luther King Drive. Two van passengers suffered minor
injuries. A witness told the Post-Dispatch at the time of the
accident that he saw a patrol car bump the Grand Am. Another said she
saw the cars traveling close together. But Police Chief Joe Mokwa
said that police cars never touched the Grand Am and were at least two
blocks away at the time of the crash. Mokwa said speeding and a flat
tire caused the crash. Police allowed the Post-Dispatch to review
audiotapes of radio messages between police cars and a police
helicopter. Those tapes suggest that police cars were not close to the
Grand Am when it crashed. Mokwa also said that he asked officers to
inspect the police cars involved in the chase and no damage consistent
with a vehicle impact was found. The witness statements triggered
weeks of controversy, protests by community activists and calls for an
investigation. Police called for protesters to produce their
witnesses, and said none of the witnesses they interviewed described
any contact between cars.
Incomplete List of Victims Killed Under Suspicious
Circumstances by Police in St. Louis Compiled by The Coalition Against
Police Crimes and Repression [more]
The American Civil Liberties Union accused the city Thursday of failing
to heed police reform agreements reached with the Justice Department
and black activists in the wake of three days of race riots in 2001.
The ACLU of Ohio in its court motion asked that federal Magistrate
Judge Michael Merz find the city in breach of the agreements and order
their enforcement. "The basic problem is that the city is trying to
unilaterally declare success and end federal supervision of the city
when the problems haven't been fixed," ACLU lawyer Scott Greenwood
said. "The city can't just walk away from these agreements. They are
about police reform and are not just public relations campaigns to
attract tourism." The ACLU among other things said the city has failed
to implement problem-solving in the police department, improperly used
arbitrary arrest sweeps and is seeking to end the agreements
prematurely. The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit against the city in
2001, accusing the police of harassing black citizens for 30 years.
That year, Mayor Charlie Luken asked the Justice Department to examine
police operations following three days of rioting. The riots came after
a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man wanted on
misdemeanor charges who ran from police. The officer was cleared at a
trial. [more
About a dozen African-Americans gathered in front of the Aurora
Municipal Center on Thursday afternoon, demanding an arrest in the
shooting death of Aaron Davis. "We are here today to expose a crime
that has been committed, and no one is in jail," said protester Shareef
Aleem, 36, of Denver. As of Thursday afternoon, no arrest had been made
in the shooting of Davis and his wife, Benita Coleman-Davis, who
remains hospitalized in critical condition. Protesters said authorities
know the identity of the shooter but that he hasn't been arrested
because he is white and the couple were black. "What is happening here
is the race card, absolutely," said Kenneth Lewis, a cousin to Aaron
Davis. "This is an outrage, and it shouldn't be overlooked. Where is
the justice? This is what we want." Davis, a 39-year-old postal worker,
was shot twice Saturday night in a parking lot outside an Aurora video
store. His wife, a 36-year-old paralegal, also was shot twice. [more]
Pictured above: Shareef Aleem attends a rally outside the Aurora
Municipal Building on Thursday. They protested what they claim is the
police department's refusal to make an arrest in the shooting death of
Aaron Davis.
Police officers must make split-second judgments in volatile
situations. But shooting children with Taser stun guns -- except perhaps
in the most dire cases -- is unacceptable. In the past two weeks,
however, police in Miami-Dade County used stun guns to subdue two
children. ... Tasers have their place in law enforcement as an
alternative to deadly force, but must not become the option of first
resort when less-risky intervention tactics exist. Considered a
non-lethal tool, Tasers deliver a highly painful 50,000 volt charge.
Their use has possibly contributed to a number of deaths, and their
safety has never been adequately established by independent studies.
Most important, we know virtually nothing about how they might
adversely affect children, who are quite different physically from
adults. The Miami-Dade Police Department should issue a moratorium on
using Tasers on children until the two cases are investigated and
officers are retrained to react with more prudence. ...
A Shelby police officer shot a man Wednesday afternoon during a
struggle to take the man to a mental health facility. Shelby police
officer Sean Mowery shot Milton Gaines, known as "Karate Man," who was
then transported to Cleveland Regional Medical Center. Some witnesses
said Gaines was shot in the torso, although Shelby Police Chief Tandy
Carter could not confirm that Wednesday evening. "The officer was
defending himself," Carter said at the scene near the intersection of
Logan and Crawford streets. "If you feel your life is threatened, you
can use deadly force. That's why we carry guns." Gaines had been in and
out of mental health facilities, neighbors said. They said he lived
alone and they didn't consider him a threat. He walked along the street
talking about religion, they said. About 4:20 p.m., Mowery arrived at
Gaines' home at 505 Crawford St., a few blocks east of Cleveland
Regional Medical Center, to serve involuntary commitment papers that
would force Gaines to undergo psychiatric treatment. Gaines became
combative and Mowery called for backup, Carter said. The two got into a
struggle and Mowery defended himself by shooting Gaines, Carter said.
Gaines lives alone and most mornings can be seen performing T'ai Chi, a
form of martial arts, in his front yard, neighbors said. "He doesn't
bother anybody," Torie Woods, a neighbor, said. "He walks around and
talks to anybody. There was no need to shoot him." Dozens of Shelby
police officers, Cleveland County Sheriff's Office deputies and
emergency medical services workers raced to the scene. A crowd gathered
and watched as ambulances carried Mowery and Gaines away. [more]
Antonio Manrique, a quiet grandfather who spoke limited English, died
from a beating at the hands of two Blue Island police officers,
according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Thursday by his family. The
lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court says the officers beat Manrique,
74, about the head and torso with their fists and batons, causing
internal bleeding and blood clots that ultimately led to his death.
City officials declined to comment on the suit, which stems from an
Oct. 6 incident in which two officers, Charles Sykes and Berni Rzab,
responded to a call in the 2300 block of West Krueger Street about gang
graffiti. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers encountered two men
in a dark alley and called out to both of them to stop, police
reported. One man tried to flee on a bicycle, and the other, Manrique,
was reported to have "trotted away." He was subsequently tackled to the
ground, the police report said. The officers were driving an unmarked
car and were not in uniform, said attorney Timothy Tomasik, who
represents Manrique's family. Manrique appeared to be shaking after the
incident, the police report said. He told officers he was suffering
from a diabetic attack. "By all accounts, he was not violating any
law," Tomasik said. "He was not threatening anyone." He was not charged
with a crime. Tomasik described Manrique as a gentle and frail man who
had an unsteady gait and would tremble when he walked. "This is a case
of a grandfather who is now dead because police officers exercised
extreme and excessive force, killing an innocent elderly gentleman," he
said. Manrique, a Mexican immigrant, suffered several broken ribs
during the confrontation and was taken to the hospital. He was covered
in cuts and bruises, Tomasik said. Manrique died four days later. [more]
The families of three teens killed during a pursuit three years ago
filed a wrongful death suit Wednesday against the St. Louis police,
claiming a patrol car bumped the fleeing auto and triggered a
wreck. On Nov. 17, 2001, officials said, Tyra Young, Darren
Allen, and Martes Mosley were in a stolen Pontiac Grand Am when it
crashed into a parked Salvation Army van and fire hydrant in the 4500
block of Martin Luther King Drive. Two van passengers suffered minor
injuries. A witness told the Post-Dispatch at the time of the
accident that he saw a patrol car bump the Grand Am. Another said she
saw the cars traveling close together. But Police Chief Joe Mokwa
said that police cars never touched the Grand Am and were at least two
blocks away at the time of the crash. Mokwa said speeding and a flat
tire caused the crash. Police allowed the Post-Dispatch to review
audiotapes of radio messages between police cars and a police
helicopter. Those tapes suggest that police cars were not close to the
Grand Am when it crashed. Mokwa also said that he asked officers to
inspect the police cars involved in the chase and no damage consistent
with a vehicle impact was found. The witness statements triggered
weeks of controversy, protests by community activists and calls for an
investigation. Police called for protesters to produce their
witnesses, and said none of the witnesses they interviewed described
any contact between cars.
Incomplete List of Victims Killed Under Suspicious
Circumstances by Police in St. Louis Compiled by The Coalition Against
Police Crimes and Repression [more]
The American Civil Liberties Union accused the city Thursday of failing
to heed police reform agreements reached with the Justice Department
and black activists in the wake of three days of race riots in 2001.
The ACLU of Ohio in its court motion asked that federal Magistrate
Judge Michael Merz find the city in breach of the agreements and order
their enforcement. "The basic problem is that the city is trying to
unilaterally declare success and end federal supervision of the city
when the problems haven't been fixed," ACLU lawyer Scott Greenwood
said. "The city can't just walk away from these agreements. They are
about police reform and are not just public relations campaigns to
attract tourism." The ACLU among other things said the city has failed
to implement problem-solving in the police department, improperly used
arbitrary arrest sweeps and is seeking to end the agreements
prematurely. The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit against the city in
2001, accusing the police of harassing black citizens for 30 years.
That year, Mayor Charlie Luken asked the Justice Department to examine
police operations following three days of rioting. The riots came after
a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man wanted on
misdemeanor charges who ran from police. The officer was cleared at a
trial. [more]
Two former police officers face federal civil rights charges in the
beating of a black man who was pulled over during a traffic stop and
ended up in a coma for more than two months. Michael R. Perkins is
charged with kicking and stomping Lamont C. Koonce, who was pulled over
for a broken tail light in October 2003 as he drove home from work.
Michael A. Tweedy is charged with kicking Koonce and falsifying a
police report to cover up the incident. Tweedy is black, and Perkins is
white. The beating, which involved at least four police officers in the
Richmond suburb of Petersburg, left Koonce hospitalized for three
months with a fractured skull, collapsed lung and other injuries. "This
is a tragedy for two reasons: the injuries suffered by Koonce ... and
it does affect the public's opinion of police," U.S. Attorney Paul
McNulty said Tuesday. Petersburg Police Chief Morris Jones said that
Perkins, Tweedy and the two other officers involved in the incident
were fired. McNulty said additional federal charges could be filed
against the other two officers. Lawyers for Perkins and Tweedy declined
to comment Tuesday. A phone message left for Koonce was not immediately
returned. Officers initially claimed that Koonce was injured when he
tripped and fell several times trying to flee. [more] and [more]
Parents and child advocates were angered that Miami-Dade police used a
stun gun to control a first-grader. The 6-year-old boy Miami-Dade
police immobilized with a 50,000-volt stun gun stands about three-feet,
five inches tall and maybe weighs 55 pounds. The boy, named after an
Old Testament prophet, suffers from attention deficit order and takes a
pill each morning to calm himself, his mother said. On Friday -- a day
after the incident at Kelsey Pharr Elementary School became public --
the little boy sat quietly in his mother's lap, wrapped in a Mickey
Mouse comforter. ''I never want to go back to school,'' he said. Then
the first-grader tore out of his great-grandmother's second-floor
apartment, scaled the steps, tussled with the dog, ran around the yard
and rode his bike. ''He is a natural, normal kid. He rides his bike. He
gets into it with other children. He throws water balloons, like any
other child,'' said his mother, Kathy Rojas. ``The police could have
handled this better. They did not have to shoot him. My child is not
mentally ill. He is hyperactive. They could have tried to handle the
situation with anything, with candy, toys, ice cream, anything.''
Miami-Dade police on Friday insisted they did the right thing because
the officers did not have to physically manhandle a child who, they
say, was armed with a shard of glass and threatening to cut himself.
Still, the incident at the Brownsville school made national news and
exposed the department to more criticism for its use of Tasers, which
it has begun distributing in greater numbers to officers. [more]
An Elk Grove man died early Monday in a confrontation with
Sacramento County sheriff's deputies after officers used pepper spray
and shot the man twice with 50,000-volt Taser stun guns. Sheriff's
officials said Ricardo Zaragoza struggled with four deputies who wanted
to take him in for a mental health examination after his family called
officials saying he was acting erratically. Sheriff's officials
and family members said officers shot him twice in the chest with Taser
guns. Family members, however, said officers used excessive force to
control him.Arnulfo Zaragoza Jr. said his brother, who had been
diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at age 20 while he was a student
at the University of California, Davis, had been taking his medicine
but had not eaten for five days. Zaragoza's "inconsistent and
incoherent statements" led the responding officers to decide that he
needed a mental health evaluation, Davis said. Zaragoza Jr, said officers discussed taking Zaragoza to a
mental hospital with Zaragoza and his parents in the living room.
Zaragoza left the room to enter his bedroom, saying, "I am not a
criminal." Officers followed, one using his foot to block Zaragoza from
closing the bedroom door, Zaragoza Jr. said. That officer sprayed
pepper spray and called for backup.
Ricardo Zaragoza had been pepper sprayed, shot twice with Taser guns
and handcuffed when at least two other officers came in at "100 miles
per hour," Zaragoza Jr. said. He said one officer used his
knee to hold his brother's neck to the ground, even as his father
exclaimed that his son had stopped breathing. Zaragoza Jr. said his
father requested that officers administer CPR, but officers said
paramedics would do so. Paramedics arrived quickly, but Zaragoza's
hands fell limp when the medic ordered deputies to remove the cuffs.
Zaragoza Jr. said another brother went to see Ricardo's body at the
hospital and said his face was bloody and his face, jaw, arms and
stomach were bruised. "Something looks very bad," Zaragoza Jr. said.
"Something went very wrong here." [more]
An off-duty New Haven police officer shot and killed a man in an
elevator at a public housing complex Monday after the two argued over
the officer's dog, state police said. 57-year-old Mack Lucky, a
resident of the building, was fatally shot by an off-duty police
officer Monday afternoon. The incident happened about 4 p.m. as Officer
Elliot Rosa was moving into the building as part of a city program that
has police officers living among public housing residents. Lucky
and Officer Elliot Rosa both got on an elevator in the building at the
same time. Officer Rosa had a small black dog with him. Police say an
argument started between the two and as the elevator was moving, shots
were fired. The New Haven Police Department says Officer Rosa was
provoked, that Lucky had a knife in his hand with which he reportedly
threatened the officer. Lucky's daughter has another theory. Mallory
says,"He's petrified of dogs. Don't know again, I don't know what
really happened, but dogs. He's petrified. I just wanna see justice for
my father and for the seniors that are still here that they'll be
safe.""The first day he moves in here he murders one of us? That's the
way I see it until they can prove different," said Kathy Leahy,
president of the tenant council at 904 Howard Ave. "He should be tried
for murder like we would be if we did that in the elevator." The
Housing Authority of New Haven, which operates the building, suspended
placing any new officers in public housing complexes. [more] and [more] and [more]
Vigil at high-rise honors city man fatally shot by off-duty cop [more]
Daughter of police shooting victim wants answers [more]
