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Electronic Village and the City Council of West Memphis for holding the Police Chief accountable.
By Villager
Officer Erik Sammis, who shot and killed 12-year-old DeAunta Farrow, and his partner, Jimmy Evans, returned back to work on the West Memphis police force. They were cleared by three separate agencies of any wrongdoing in the killing of the youngster. You'll recall that DeAunta was not doing anything wrong at the time ... just walking over to his cousin's house.
Sammis shot him dead. Now Sammis is back at work. Ain't police justice grand?!
West Memphis City Council member Lorraine Robinson was not happy about the return of the officers.
"I think it's a slap in the community's face, 'cause the whole nation is looking at West Memphis, Arkansas," she said. "
These men have committed this act, and it has gotten to much notoriety, and these men can just go back."The West Memphis City Council took an unusual step.
They voted 6-4 to remove the two officer and Bob Paudert, the police chief. The Mayor has five days to make a decision, but he doesn't plan to announce anything until Monday. William Johnson is the mayor of West Memphis, "
I support Bob Paudert totally 100 percent. I always have." He says, he can't think of any reason why he would not keep the Chief.
You must see the racially-charged remarks of the West Memphis police chief. It was these heated comments made to News Channel 3 that set-off the firestorm.
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Amnesty International is tracking taser abuse as a human rights abuse issue in the United States. Since June 2001, more than 320 individuals in the United States have died after being shocked by police TASERs. Most of those individuals were not carrying a weapon. Amnesty International is concerned that TASERs are being used as tools of routine force -- rather than as an alternative to firearms.
