A federal lawsuit filed this week alleges that on the night of April 16, 2019, Robert Miller lay chest-down in his Hyannis home, struggling for air, as a Barnstable police officer applied pressure to his back.
The officer, Sean Roycroft, had been sent to Miller’s home for what a dispatch log coded as a “mental health emergency” after his girlfriend called 911.
Miller, the lawsuit says, was suffering a psychotic break and needed help.
When Officer Spencer Jackson arrived, he struck the 63-year-old man “supposedly to assist in handcuffing him,” according to the lawsuit. By the time police put Miller in handcuffs minutes later, he had no pulse, the suit says.
SARA CLINE
Associated Press/Report for America
PORTLAND â Two police officers raised their weapons while sheltering behind a tree in a Portland park. They yelled at a homeless man to put up his hands. Moments later, two shots rang out. The man collapsed onto the grassy field.
A replica gun with an orange tip was found at the scene on April 16. But some key details are unclear, including whether the fake weapon was in Robert Delgadoâs possession during the deadly encounter, or if he pointed it at officers.
Police have been tight-lipped, citing an ongoing investigation, and the only video from the scene â 11 minutes of footage taken by bystanders, not officers â shows just a portion of what happened.
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California man who died in custody was restrained on his stomach for 5 minutes and lost consciousness, police body camera shows
May 7, 2021 9:11 AM CNN
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Alameda Police Department
(CNN) A California man who died in police custody this month was restrained on his stomach on the ground for about five minutes before he became unresponsive and officers began CPR, body camera footage released Tuesday by the Alameda Police Department shows.
The April 19 death of Mario Gonzalez Arenales, 26, is under investigation by the county and the city, and a lawyer representing Gonzalez’s family alleges the first police news release about the incident was misleading.
Humanizing the People Police Kill Details
DEATH BY COP On the day Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, local law enforcement in my hometown killed my nephew’s father. His name was Jose Flores.
When my local paper “reported” on Jose’s death, it was more a regurgitation of a police report than journalism. There were no interviews with Jose’s family, who were on the scene when police used tear gas and “less lethal munitions” to kill him.
Jose could have been taken into custody. Instead, police transported his lifeless body to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
May 6, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Two police officers raised their weapons while sheltering behind a tree in a Portland park. They yelled at a homeless man to put up his hands. Moments later, two shots rang out. The man collapsed onto the grassy field.
A replica gun with an orange tip was found at the scene on April 16. But some key details are unclear, including whether the fake weapon was in Robert Delgado’s possession during the deadly encounter, or if he pointed it at officers.
Police have been tight-lipped, citing an ongoing investigation, and the only video from the scene 11 minutes of footage taken by bystanders, not officers shows just a portion of what happened.