It also came as Schneiderman opens his first case under the new special prosecutor powers in the death of Raynette Turner, who died in Mount Vernon
police custody last month.
Mount Vernon — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced today that he's using his new power as a special prosecutor to investigate the death of a woman who died in
police custody last week.
Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in
police custody last July after he was placed in a chokehold, a prohibited maneuver.
But this time the last words of Eric Garner, who died while under
police custody last month, were instead chanted by thousands who had gathered to march across the Verrazano Bridge this past Sat., Aug. 23rd.
The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in
police custody last year, immediately renewed questions of whether any of the six police officers charged in the case would be convicted in connection with his death.
Not exact matches
Police were
last night granted the power to hold 23 suspects arrested in connection with the alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic planes in
custody for another week.
Bellone has been pushing for the resignation of District Attorney Tom Spota and his deputy, Chris McPartland, for the
last several months, but increased those calls following their indictments on charges they aided in the cover up of the Suffolk
police chief's beating of a suspect in
custody.
The Chinese illegal miners and their Ghanaian accomplices who were arrested on River Ankobra in the Western Region
last Friday, appeared at the Sekondi High Court on Monday [March 27th 2017], where they were remanded into
police custody to reappear on April 10, 2017.
Zimbabwe has charged 68 people with public violence following violent clashes between protesters and the
police last week and a magistrate court will on Tuesday rule whether they should be released from
custody while they await trial.
NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman confirmed Monday he will launch a full - scale investigation into the death Raynette Turner, an African American mother of eight, who died
last week while in the
custody of the Mount Vernon
Police Department.
In the same breath, Cuomo also took the president to task for joking to
police in Suffolk County last week about roughly handling suspects in custody — a comment the Suffolk County Police Department distanced itself from a statement later tha
police in Suffolk County
last week about roughly handling suspects in
custody — a comment the Suffolk County
Police Department distanced itself from a statement later tha
Police Department distanced itself from a statement later that day.
The wife of former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato has started legal action against Nassau County and its
police department, claiming law enforcement officials «falsely imprisoned her» in a hospital
last year while «acting in concert» with her estranged husband — causing her to lose
custody of her children.
Last year, a handful of protestors attempted to disrupt the Mayor's address, calling out him and the city's
police department in memory of 20 - year - old Wardel Davis, who died in
police custody.
The mayor said the staffing was at least partly in reaction to protests during his state of the city address
last week about the death of a young African - American man while in
police custody.
The FBI took five people with possible links to the Chelsea explosion into
custody last night in Brooklyn as authorities shut down a busy New Jersey rail station after finding multiple pipe bombs in a garbage can,
police and New Jersey officials said.
Late
last night, officers from the
Police Department's Warrant Squad took into
custody and were questioning a person of interest in the case.
A man is in
custody after
police responded to a call about someone showing up with a gun at Trump Tower
last night.
De Blasio offered another defense of the NYPD while also taking a shot at the «rhetoric of union leaders» — one of whom suggested the possibility of a work slowdown by officers after fallout over the death of Eric Garner
last month in
police custody.
Burke, appointed by County Executive Steve Bellone to lead the
police department
last year, is now under a federal investigation for allegedly assaulting a Smithtown man who was in
custody at the Fourth Precinct accused of taking department - issued equipment out of the chief's vehicle when it was parked near Burke's home
last December.
Other instances of violent attacks have also been carried out on
police stations in various parts of the country including the Kwabena District Headquarters Police station last month, where a police officer on duty was shot dead and criminals in police custody were
police stations in various parts of the country including the Kwabena District Headquarters
Police station last month, where a police officer on duty was shot dead and criminals in police custody were
Police station
last month, where a
police officer on duty was shot dead and criminals in police custody were
police officer on duty was shot dead and criminals in
police custody were
police custody were freed.
Last year, Machado and five other officers were honored for capturing a serial armed robber who critically wounded at least one of his victims, and fired on the
police before he was taken into
custody.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed
last week to consider whether a juvenile burglary suspect who was interrogated at school by the
police was in
custody and should have been given a Miranda warning about his rights.
PROTEST RALLY SOCIAL ACTIVISM HONG KONG Many protest rallies are occurring around the world this weekend, of of which are calling for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, taken into
custody by Chinese
police last week.
Last summer, she travelled to Portage la Prairie, Man., to represent Annette Sanderson, who was charged with obstruction after she refused a
police officer entry to her home in a child -
custody dispute.
It also comes as a Western Australian coronial inquiry is hearing distressing details about the death in
custody last year of Ms Dhu, the 22 year old Aboriginal woman held at the South Hedland
police station for unpaid fines.