BRAVE Fraternal Order of Police Officers, who feared for their safety, tear gas & shoot to death a 107-year-old man. Fraternal Order of Police Officers, who feared for their safety, shoot to death a 93-year-old woman.
Tuesday 8:30-11:30 p.m. Updated: Wed 5:55 PM, May 07, 2014 ~ A 93-year-old woman is shot and killed by a police officer at her home in Hearne. Pearlie Golden was pronounced dead Tuesday night at St. Joseph Hospital. The elderly woman was rushed there after being shot by a male officer at her house on Pin Oak Street. Multiple witnesses tell us she was shot at least five times. Hearne police are not ready to say whether Golden was armed or why the officer felt threatened. "All I know is that they were called out here,” said Robertson County District Attorney Coty Siegert. “They were dispatched out here to address the situation. Again, I'm not sure exactly what that situation was, but it was not a random encounter." Residents are questioning why police would shoot Golden who they described as a sweet, sweet woman. “Even if she did have a gun, she is in her 90’s,” said Lawanda Cooke. “They could have shot in the air to scare her. Maybe she would have dropped it. I don’t see her shooting anyone. Siegert says the case will eventually be presented to a Grand Jury, which is standard procedure in officer involved shootings. The Texas Rangers and Robertson County District Attorney’s Office are investigating. The Hearne Police Department says they are working on a news release. We'll bring you that information as soon as it is released.
9/7/13 : Pine Bluff, Arkansas : ACCORDING TO POLICE: They arrived at Monroe Isadore's residence in response to reports of a disturbance. Mr. Isadore confronted them with a handgun and retreated into a bedroom, firing on them when they attempted to enter. S.W.A.T. officers arrived as backup and, after failed negotiations, released gas into the room and broke down the door. Mr. Isadore fired on them as they entered, and they returned fire, killing him. Mr. Monroe Isadore was 107 years old.
WEB: In the long run, routine deception by the police tears at our social fabric, and undermines the law enforcement system. The more police lie, the more skeptical juries are going to be, even when police are telling the truth.
Arkansas medical examiner rules death of handcuffed suspect a suicide, updated 10:03 P.M. E.D.T., Mon. August 20, 2012
(C.N.N.) -- The Arkansas medical examiner has ruled the death of a man shot while handcuffed in the back of a police car as a suicide, the state crime lab announced Monday.
Chavis Carter, 21, died July 29 while in the back of a Jonesboro, Arkansas, police car. The police report from that night shows officers detained Carter after learning there was a warrant for his arrest in Mississippi and searched him twice before leaving him handcuffed in the backseat of a patrol car.
"At the time of discharge, the muzzle of the gun was placed against the right temporal scalp," the crime lab's report states. Police said they discovered a .380-caliber Cobra semi-automatic pistol when they found Carter's body slumped over.
Many people in Jonesboro were skeptical about the shooting, as was Carter's mother. "I think they killed him," Theresa Carter told C.N.N. on Wednesday. "I mean, my son wasn't suicidal."
She also said her son was left-handed and had called his girlfriend to tell her he would contact her from jail. She wondered how police could find a bag of marijuana and not find a gun when they searched her son. There have been several protests in Jonesboro by citizens who don't believe the police explanation. Police have released a video in which an officer dramatizes how someone could shoot themselves while in the back of a police car. The officer was the same height and build as Carter, police said. They also have released the interview room video of a witness who said police were standing outside the car when a shot was fired. The autopsy also showed that Chavis Carter tested positive for marijuana, amphetamines (including ****) and benzodiazepines, classified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as depressants. Jonesboro police said the investigation into Carter's death is ongoing.
