Internal affairs report missing for convicted former Erie County deputy
2 On Your Side has confirmed that in a recent court filing, the lawyer representing Kenneth Achtyl and Sheriff Tim Howard says the report can t be located. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 5:18 PM EDT April 7, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. The internal file on Kenneth Achtyl, the former Erie County Sheriff s Deputy who was found guilty of assaulting a Bills fan during a 2017 tailgate, cannot be located, according to a lawyer representing Achtyl s victim in a lawsuit stemming from the incident.
First reported by the Buffalo News, the professional standards division for the Erie County Sheriff s Office had conducted an internal investigation in 2018. On Wednesday, 2 On Your Side confirmed that in a recent filing, the lawyer representing Achtyl and Sheriff Tim Howard informed the court that the internal file could not be located.
Demonstration protests death at Erie County Holding Center
Credit: Tom Answeeney
By Juniper Carpenter
Workers World Party members and people from the community gathered outside the Erie County Holding Center, N.Y., on March 31 in response to the March 13 death of Mikey Frears. Frears was the 36th person to die in the Holding Center since Sheriff Tim Howard took office in 2005.
Demonstrators demanded that Sheriff Tim Howard resign, that addiction be treated through treatment and not through incarceration, and for abolition of the unjust prison system.
The U.S. prison system continues to prey on the working class. For decades, the system has been profiting from the labor of prisoners while paying them a minuscule amount in wages and isolating them from their community. Specifically in locations like the Holding Center, individuals are held before going to trial. And any death in these holding centers or jails happens because the administration refuses to care for the people i
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