Month: April 2021

On December 29, 2020, a police officer who was responding to a 911 call killed Trevor Seever, a resident of the city of Modesto, California. According to officials, the victim’s sister called police officer Joseph Lamantia through the rescue service in order to calm Seever, who had a nervous breakdown.

Police shot Tyrell Wilson, 33, on March 11 in Danville, California while being detained and died of his wounds 6 days later. Wilson’s assassination sparked public protests in the city. Wilson’s family members have already hired a lawyer for a future lawsuit against the police.

Police shot Jenoah Donald, a 30-year-old black man, after an assistant officer stopped Donald’s car over a smashed tail lamp in Hazel Dell, north of Vancouver. The incident took place on February 4, 2021.

On January 10, police in Nice began chasing 20-year-old Maïcol Goncalvez-Furtado.

It is reported that the police continued to chase for more than 10 km and that he lost control of his scooter in the tunnel. The crash was fatal. According to a friend of Maïсol, who witnessed the incident, the loss of control was provoked by the police themselves in order to end the chase. The police themselves deny this fact, calling the incident an accident.

According to some reports, the police called an ambulance only 26 minutes after the incident. Relatives and the public of the city demand justice for the deceased young man and the publication of the recordings of CCTV cameras.

On March 3, a demonstration took place in the city, the participants of which demanded to establish the truth about Maïcol’s death. The case is currently under investigation.

33-years-old Californian man, Omar Moreno Arroyo, has died in the San Diego County custody. Arroyo was detained on January 6 in his own home on suspicion of drug use. Shortly before midnight on the same date, Omar suffocated while awaiting release from a holding cell. Presumably, death occurred due to blockage of the respiratory system by a medical mask.

It is still unclear why the arrest itself occurred – the state of California has anti-coronavirus measures to reduce prison overcrowding, according to which it is recommended to cite people for certain crimes instead of taking them into custody.

The sheriff’s department published a report on the incident only in late March, after public statements by the widow of the deceased that the department had sealed to the case and for several months did not give her answers about the circumstances of her husband’s death.

The very account of Arroyo’s death leaves many questions that the authorities cannot answer. There is a video in which Omar falls from a bench in a seizure, however, there is no information about what preceded the incident. There is also no information on whether the prison staff provided emergency assistance to the victim. It is not known how long it took from the moment of Arroyo’s seizure to the moment he was discovered by the deputies.

The family of the deceased plans to sue the police officers who carried out the illegal detention, and the administration of the Sheriff’s Department, which for a long time concealed the cause of death.

On March 3 of this year, Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old British marketing executive, was kidnapped on her way home. On the 9th, London police officer Wayne Couzens was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, whose main job task was to patrol diplomatic facilities.

Since 2006, Darren Cole, a fifty-year-old Chicago resident, has regularly faced stops and arrests from the local police. The reason for these incidents is that there is another person with the same name and date of birth in the wanted database of law enforcement agencies, who is wanted in another city in Illinois.