After Michael Brown Shooting And Eric Garner Chokehold Deaths, Spotlight on Police Training. We decided to pull together what we've learned along the way, along with some thoughtful commentary from other outlets about this case and the larger questions it raises. Garner told those officers he had been shot in the South Street shooting, and the police took him to the hospital, Pescatore said. [20][47], About twenty minutes after the Corona shooting two officers of the neighboring Riverside Police Department were ambushed and shot while stopped in their marked patrol unit at a red traffic light. Michael Garner - Wikipedia Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said at the Monday press conference that Garner was seen on video shooting "toward the area" where a confrontation between two other individuals was taking place. #CHP remain in area and continue to take thrown projectiles. And when body cameras are turned on, the footage usually favors the officer's account, according to police, law enforcement experts and public defenders we spoke with.". Wilson's shooting of Brown, a Black man, in August 2014 sparked a federal civil rights inquiry, protests, and a national debate. [114], On February 4, 2014, LAPD chief Charlie Beck announced that eight officers had violated the LAPD's use-of-force policy and would be disciplined. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. A dash cam video shows the situation quickly escalating between her and Officer Brian Encinia, when he tells her to put out her cigarette, she refuses, and he orders her out of the car. Along with bodycams, there have been calls in the wake of these stories for police departments to be more representative of their communities. [84], Police initially attempted to force Dorner out of the cabin by using tear gas and demanding over loudspeakers that he surrender. [89][90][91] A wallet with a California driver's license with the name "Christopher Dorner" was also found in the rubble of the cabin. [23][24] The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted its own investigation. Michael Brown is killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri [117], On February 10, 2013, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of Dorner and, because the terms of the offer were not carefully stipulated, judges had to later decide how the reward would be divided. Potts said that while her job required her to suss out more specific questions like whether an officer accused of roughing up a civilian was justified in doing so, "the questions that [these videos of police] inspire are deeper." The Rice family settled a wrongful death suit against the city of Cleveland for $6 million; the city did not acknowledge fault in the boy's death. Shooting: 'You Pay For Your Decisions In This Life', or is technology simply making them easier to capture, there's no comprehensive national database, A measure compiled by Colorlines and the Chicago Reporter, Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. One person was injured by shattered glass during a wild daytime shootout at the Garner Carolina Ale House last weekend. The New Yorker's Philip Gourevtich asks a straightforward question: Should we watch and share the video of Scott being gunned down? [16], Dorner was a United States Navy Reserve officer, commissioned in 2002. Eastbound lanes on Highway 24 were temporarily blocked and the CHP said drivers in the area had their "windows in the up position and doors locked." [95][96] At the same news conference, Sheriff John McMahon reiterated the claim that deputies had not deliberately set the cabin on fire. Walter Scott was pulled over for a broken brake light. / CBS News. No one waschargedwith Bland'sdeath. hide caption. [20][21][22], Following the shooting, a grand jury decided not to indict any of the officers involved on charges of either murder, reckless homicide, or negligent homicide. Officers used tear gas during protests involving as many as 500 people marching from Berkeley toward Oakland. The killing of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. It made inescapable a horrific murder, an act of outrageous injustice by a putative guardian of the law. [18], The Guardian revealed in December that immediately after the shooting, police aggressively questioned Crawford's girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, threatening her with jail time. Besides that constitutional standard, police departments often have their own rules over when officers can use deadly force. He got out of the car and started to run away, when Officer Michael Slager shot him eighttimes. [92] That same day, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon disputed rumors that deputies had intentionally burned down the cabin. The LAPD also took patrol officers off motorcycles for their protection.[26]. [15] Shortly afterwards, his duties as a probationary officer were interrupted when he was deployed by the Navy Reserve to Bahrain. As the recent federal inquiry into Philadelphia's police department showed, as Fusion's Connie Fossi-Garcia and Dan Lieberman, called for the arrest of Clarence Habersham, the death of Eric Garner in New York City last summer. Missouri AG says St. Louis daylight shooting of homeless man proves Officer Try To Flee To Mexico? Hundreds of demonstrators in Berkeley, California, took to the streets, some of them breaking windows and setting fires. Crawford was later pronounced dead at Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital. That's become an issue in North Charleston, too the city is about half black, and black folks are the largest racial group in the city. 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[93], On February 14, medical examiners confirmed during an autopsy, using dental records, that the charred body found in the burned-out cabin was in fact that of Dorner. According to Pescatore, at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Gregory Jackson and Micah Townes got into an argument, during which Jackson hit Townes in the face. Vereen was taken into custody without incident, CBS Philadelphia says. The team posted a statement on Twitter about his loss. Over the weekend, the National Bar Association, a group of black judges and lawyers, called for the arrest of Clarence Habersham, the second officer at the scene, who is black and can be seen in one of the videos directly following the shooting. [17] He was honorably discharged from the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant on February 1, 2013. Julia Garner, A$AP Rocky, and Elliot Page in new ad for Gucci Believing the BB gun was a real firearm, one of the officers fired two shots into Crawford's torso and arm. The violence and hate being committed tonight is an extremely small percentage of that. The protests marked the fifth day of demonstrations following a grand jury's decision not to indict the officer who killed Garner. What Happened in Ferguson? - The New York Times Christopher Jordan Dorner (June 4, 1979[2] February 12, 2013) was a former officer of the Los Angeles Police Department who, beginning on February 3, 2013, committed a series of shootings in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County and San Bernardino County, California.