Time Off for Murder
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Three were found not guilty, three officers had their charges dropped. Officers cleared in Freddie Gray's death Samuel DuBose on left and Raymond Tensing, who has had two mistrials, on right. The year-old who was pulled over for a missing front license plate was shot in the head in a July incident captured on body-camera video.
The officer, Ray Tensing, was charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter.
Archived from the original on December 12, Enyart took the items outside the courthouse where the auction was held, burned the certificate and jerseys, and with calm deliberation smashed the trophies with a sledgehammer. This was a minor victory for Simpson's lawyers because it would give them access to evidence as it was being presented by the prosecution in contrast to the procedure in a grand jury hearing. In the US, murder is the leading cause of death for African American males aged 15 to The distinction between first- and second-degree murder exists, for example, in Canadian murder law and U. They presented a witness in the vicinity of Bundy Drive who saw a car similar to Simpson's Bronco speeding away from the area at
Tensing testified that he was being dragged by the left arm when he reached up and shot DuBose, while prosecutors said he wasn't being pulled by the car and didn't need to fire at DuBose. A mistrial was declared in A second mistrial was declared in after juries deadlocked over a verdict. Walter Scott on left and Michael Slager, sentenced to prison, on right. The year-old man driving with a broken brake light was shot while running away from North Charleston police officer, Michael Slager. Slager was charged with first-degree murder after a cell-phone video of the April incident was released.
He pleaded guilty in May to the federal charge of violation of civil rights by acting under the color of law.
Slager's state murder trial ended in a mistrial. US District Court Judge David Norton ruled in that the underlying offense to a civil rights charge was second-degree murder and sentenced Slager to 20 years in federal prison. Akai Gurley on left and Peter Liang, who was found guilty of manslaughter, on right. The year-old man was fatally shot in a New York housing project. Police officer Peter Liang, who had been on the job 18 months, was on patrol in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project in November when he fired his gun.
He testified that it was an accidental discharge.
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The bullet ricocheted off a wall and struck Gurley in the chest. Liang was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and official misconduct. A State Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn reportedly spared Liang jail time , ordering him to serve five years probation, hours of community service and three years probation.
The justice, Danny Chun, also reduced Liang's second-degree manslaughter charge to criminally negligent homicide, ruling Liang failed to perceive the risk that his actions would lead to Gurley's death. Supporters said that Liang, a Chinese-American, was singled out for prosecution. Eric Courtney Harris, was shot in the back after an undercover weapons sting in The year-old man was shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Robert Bates, a volunteer reserve sheriff's deputy for the county sheriff's office in April Officers were conducting a sting operation to try to catch Harris illegally selling a gun and had pursued, then tackled him when Bates fired his pistol into Harris' back.
Bates, 74, said he had meant to use his Taser, not his revolver.
Bates was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter. He was sentenced in June to four years in prison, with credit for time served; he was released in October , court documents show. Eric Garner's family speaks out one year later The year-old man died after being tackled to the ground and held in a chokehold by New York City police officers on July 17, , for allegedly selling cigarettes illegally.
Garner, who has asthma, said, "I can't breathe," as the incident was captured on cell-phone video and died later that day. Grand jury decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo. New footage released in Michael Brown case The unarmed year-old was fatally shot after a struggle with a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, Documents show that Officer Darren Wilson fired his gun 12 times.
Grand jury decided not to indict Wilson , leading to renewed protests. Brown's family reached a civil settlement with the city in June The year-old Cleveland teenager was shot by a police officer, who was responding to a call claiming a person was pointing "a pistol" at people. An officer in training, Timothy Loehmann, shot at Rice, who was carrying an air pistol, within moments of arriving at the scene in November A grand jury decided not to indict Loehmann or the officer who was with him, Frank Garmback.
Loehmann was fired in May for being untruthful on his job application, and Garmback was suspended for 10 days for violating tactical rules relating to how he drove to the shooting scene. A dispatcher was suspended for eight days in March for failing to relay a citizen's report that Rice was "probably a juvenile" and that his gun was "probably fake," and another officer was suspended for two days at that time for working a second job near the shooting scene without permission. The year-old woman was found dead in her cell three days after being arrested in Waller County, Texas, for allegedly failing to use her turn signal in July Grand jury decided not to indict any of the county jail employees.
New revelation in Alton Sterling case The year-old Louisiana man was fatally shot after being pinned to the ground by officers outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in July Police said he was reaching for a gun. No federal civil rights or state charges were filed against the officers. The year-old Chicago teenager died after being shot by a police officer 16 times in October Dashcam video of the shooting contradicted nearly everything police said happened the night he died in October.
It showed McDonald walking away from police as he held a 4-inch knife, not lunging toward officers, as police had said. The officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder and in indicted on 16 additional counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. He's now the homicide supervisor for the 77th division in south LA, which has historically had one of the highest murder rates in the city. As a part of our 'A day's work' series , Detective Barling has agreed to open up about his life and his work with Guardian readers, and answer questions throughout the afternoon.
So what do you want to know? First of all, there is never a typical workday for a homicide detective. However, since I am the homicide supervisor, I am always on call. I usually start my day between am, depending on the LA traffic. First thing I do is meet with the members of my squad, as they get their morning cups of coffee. I then transition the conversation into getting updates on their current investigations and their investigative plans to solve their cases. Next, based on the teams of detectives' availability, I determine who is going to be on call with me during the week they get to pre-schedule what weekend they have in advance.
What makes for a really good day on the job?
I then usually do a series of administrative functions: But that's only the case if we didn't have a homicide overnight. When a murder occurs it is rarely during business hours; it is usually between 10pm and 3am. So, on those days, my watch officially starts when I arrive at the crime scene. I then assess if more detectives need to be called in to start early and start handing out tasks to be completed. Some of tasks can be locating and interviewing witnesses, re-canvassing the crime scene for additional witnesses or evidence, locating and downloading surveillance footage, booking evidence, searching through criminal data bases, and meeting with other law enforcement officers, who have expertise in the area where the crime occurred.
I oversee all of this and monitor the investigative team who is assigned the case and the teams that are assisting them. I also meet with the area captain and the bureau chief and update them on the status of the case to help assist them in the assignment of uniformed officers in the area for future crime prevention and apprehension. I also meet with gang intervention personnel and discuss the potential of retaliation because a high number of the murders in 77th division have some relationship to street gangs.
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The victims are not always gang members but the suspects usually are. All of this tends to make for long days and end of watch is rarely what it is scheduled to be. I am fortunate that every day is a good day on the job. I have the privilege of working with and supervising arguably the best detectives in the world. What makes a special day, is watching the detectives put together their cases and solving them. It is satisfying to watch a team of detectives getting excited that they just got their suspect identified or have a enough evidence to file a case against a murderer.
It is exciting to watch a detective interviewing a suspect, and getting that suspect to make admissions or confess to a murder. It is also rewarding to hear one of the detectives get the call from the district attorney that a jury just convicted a suspect who is responsible for a murder.
Jury acquits Palos Verdes Estates man of murder in suspected gang killing in South L.A.
These days are special because we can then explain to a family that we know who is responsible for killing their loved one. I began working as a homicide detective in , and technology is the biggest change over that time. When I first started working cases, we didn't have computers. We use to handwrite all reports and then typed them on a typewriter.
Now everything is done on a computer. In , we just had blood typing that was used to help identity people to a crime scene. There was no social media or surveillance cameras. The technology of today has greatly helped detectives build circumstantial evidence in their cases. We usually don't solve a case in an hour, or find scientific evidence everywhere.
Over the past 10 years, 77th division has had murders and there are approximately open cases which are still not solved.