Giovanni Loyola visited the hospital over the 10 months after his arrest last year to address restrictive blood flow and chronic pain. Complications in blood circulation ultimately resulted in the amputation of his left hand. His experience is just one of many police assaults on workers in Alabama in the recent period.
Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey said today a preliminary autopsy report found that a kidnapping suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot in an encounter with police, who fired into the vehicle he had entered outside a Montgomery hotel. Gary Moncrief, 32, died in the incident May 18 at the Microtel Inn in Montgomery. Lawyers for the family have said Moncrief was unarmed and was shot .
UPDATE: Dispute Over Officer-Involved Shooting Incident in Montgomery
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Gary Moncrief (right) – Contributed photo
Attorneys for a man who died during an incident involving Montgomery police last week are speaking out against the police department for what they say was the murder of an unarmed Black man. But Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and District Attorney Daryl Bailey say those attorneys are ignoring the facts of the case.
Gary Moncrief died Tuesday night, May 18, outside the Microtel hotel near exit 11 off Interstate 85 in Montgomery.
Attorneys Michael Strickland and Dewayne Brown were gathered with members of Moncrief’s family outside the Alabama Supreme Court building for a news conference, where they said Moncrief was the latest Black man in this country to die at the hands of police. They say he was unarmed when a Montgomery police officer shot and killed him as he sat inside the back seat of a car.
The suspect fired on officers, and the officers returned fire, Coleman said.
Montgomery police immediately turned the investigation over the the State Bureau of Investigations, which is standard practice for a shooting involving officers.
Moncrief s family, however, said there was no exchange of gunfire, according to their attorneys.
A news release sent from attorneys Michael Strickland and Dwayne Brown, who are representing Moncrief s estate, said the 32-year-old was unarmed and getting into a car carrying his mother, aunt and a family friend when he was fatally shot by police. As Gary entered the automobile, which was still occupied by his family, an officer from the Montgomery Police Department exited an unmarked SUV and shot multiple times into the back and side of the automobile, narrowly missing Gary s mother and hitting Gary in the back of his head, the release says. Within seconds of exiting the hotel, Gary Moncrief was slumped dead in the lap of his mother.
BOISE â Today Reclaim Idaho filed suit in the Idaho Supreme Court to strike down Idahoâs recently enacted anti-initiatives law as unconstitutional. The Committee to Protect and Preserve the Idaho Constitutionâa committee of distinguished Idaho lawyersâis serving as a plaintiff in the case alongside Reclaim Idaho.
The anti-initiatives law, signed by Governor Little on April 17th, requires ballot-initiative campaigns to collect signatures from at least 6% of registered voters in each of Idahoâs 35 state-legislative districtsâup from the 18 districts previously required.
Represented by attorneys Deborah Ferguson and Craig Durham of Ferguson Durham PLLC, Reclaim Idaho says the new anti-initiatives law violates the fundamental right of Idaho citizens to propose or reject legislation. The anti-initiatives law gives Idaho the most restrictive signature requirements in the nation, making it virtually impossible for grassroots organizations to qualify initiativ