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Months after a federal judge dismissed charges in an Iowa City man s case saying it amounted to a story of walking while Black , Chris Kelly filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Iowa City and Johnson County officials, accusing them of racial profiling and unlawful stop, among other charges, tied to his December 2019 arrest.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against two named police officers, an assistant Johnson County attorney, unidentified officers who participated in the arrest, the City of Iowa City, Johnson County and unidentified employees from those municipalities.
By Jenny Loweth and Mark Stanford
Rashpal Singh Gill (left) and Alex Bates
A MAN and a teenager were given life sentences for the brutal murder of a Bradford builder who was dragged into the street while unconscious and left to die. Paul Ackroyd, 37, a much-loved son and father, was attacked at a flat in Jinnah Court, Manningham, Bradford, in the early hours of February 23, 2019. Alex Bates, 19, of Eastfield Gardens, Holme Wood, Bradford, was detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure for a minimum term of 14 years and 358 days. Rashpal Singh Gill, 40, of Leeds Road, Bradford, was jailed for a minimum term of 11 years and 358 days.
Judge Jonathan Rose, inset, jailed Benjamin Fort, of Keighley, for pointing a laser beam at a police helicopter A MAN who shone a laser beam at a police helicopter carrying out a missing persons search has been branded an idiot by a judge. Benjamin Fort, 39, directed the beam from his laser pen for a prolonged period at the helicopter, which was looking for a missing woman in Keighley. The laser beam, which Fort shone from his top floor flat at Parkwood Rose, Keighley, temporarily blinded the pilot, who was on board with another serving police officer. The helicopter had travelled from Manchester to assist with the search for the missing woman.
A MAN who shone a laser beam at a police helicopter carrying out a missing persons search has been branded an idiot by a judge. Benjamin Fort, 39, directed the beam from his laser pen for a prolonged period at the helicopter, which was looking for a missing woman in Keighley. The laser beam, which Fort shone from his top-floor flat at Parkwood Rise, Keighley, temporarily blinded the pilot, who was on board with another serving police officer. The helicopter had travelled from Manchester to assist with the search for the missing woman. Fort claimed he was shining the laser beam as he was hunting rabbits, but said at an earlier court hearing he thought the helicopter was a UFO.