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COLORADO POLICE OFFICER RESIGNS BEFORE HIS ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING FOR AN INCIDENT HE HAD WITH A BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare
Boulder, Colorado police officer, John Smyly resigned this past Wednesday, before his scheduled administrative hearing.
The hearing was about a confrontation that the police officer had with an African-American Naropa University student, Zayd Atkinson in March.
An internal investigation revealed that the officer Smyly in his treatment of Atkinson, had violated conduct, police authority and public trust.
In the resignation agreement he will reportedly stay on with the department until 2020, and will receive $69,000.
According to the AtlantaBlackStar:
Atkinson’s lawyer, Siddhartha Rathod, was less-than-pleased with the agreement and said the city was using taxpayer dollars to reward Smyly for his misconduct.
Rathod later said: “Boulder is paying this officer nearly $80,000 in taxpayer money, giving him a year’s paid vacation for what he did”.
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MAN WRONGLY CONVICTED WHEN $13 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare
An African-American man, who went to prison for six years was awarded $13 million dollars in a settlement , which was agreed upon by the San Francisco board of supervisors .
According to NPR, Jamal Trulove, who is also an actor, was reportedly set up and served prison time for a 2007 murder he did not commit. His 2015 retrial proved his innocence, and he was acquitted for the crime.
In 2007, Trulove sued the SFPD, after he was arrested and sent to prison for the murder of his friend Seu Kuka.
A jury would later determine that San Francisco police officers Maureen D’Amico and Michael Johnson lied and falsified evidence in the case, and even coerced a witness to lie and claim that Trulove was the shooter.
If the case was not overturned, Trulove could of spent the rest of his life behind bar.
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A TRANSGENDER IMMIGRANT DETAINEE DIES IN ICE CUSTODY
By: Leon kwasi Kuntuo-Asare
The Family and lawyers of Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez, are looking for answers in how she died.
According to her family and their representatives, Rodriguez, was an HIV positive transgender woman from Honduras, who was seeking Asylum in the United States.
On May 13, she was taken into ICE custody, at the Ysidro Port of entry near the border of San Diego, California. On May 16, She would be transferred to a for-profit ICE detention center, the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, and placed in a unit for transgender detainees.
Nine days later, she would die at the Lovelace medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was originally determined that she died of cardiac arrest. Later, a private autopsy, which was paid for by the Transgender Law Center, which is presenting Rodriguez’s family, later revealed that they believed she died of dehydration, in combination with her HIV infection, the autopsy, would also show signs of possible abuse, she reportedly had shackle marks on her wrist and bruising on her stomach and back, which could suggest that she was beaten.
According to CNN, “TLC sent a written notice of a personal injury and wrongful death claim to the state of New Mexico on November 19, the first step in filing a lawsuit.”
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/27/us/transgender-asylum-seeker-wrongful-death-claim/index.html
