The latest on the death of Dion Johnson, shot and killed by a DPS trooper the same day of the George Floyd murder
Video was key in the Derek Chauvin trial, leading to his conviction. The DPS trooper who shot Dion Johnson didn t have a body camera. Author: Erica Stapleton Updated: 5:00 PM MST April 21, 2021
PHOENIX On the same day George Floyd was killed by former police officer Derek Chauvin, a controversial use of force case was playing out in Phoenix.
In the early hours of Memorial Day 2020, DPS Trooper George Cervantes rode up on his agency motorcycle to a parked car blocking part of Loop 101 near Tatum.
Yet in one instance, the Phoenix Police Department chose to return the firearms of a protester, but not the rest of his belongings, after his criminal case was dismissed.
Brandon Valentin, who s 27, was arrested at a downtown Phoenix protest in August for conduct that he allegedly committed at a different protest two weeks earlier.
Before the arrest, he said, he had been driving around near the August 23 protest in case any friends who were at the demonstration needed rides out of the area. Phoenix police officers pulled him over and arrested him near the Phoenix Police Department headquarters at 620 West Washington Street. He was eventually charged with felony rioting, felony assault on an officer, and two misdemeanors, including obstructing a thoroughfare. Officers seized his iPhone, GoPro camera, wallet, two pistols, and a bulletproof vest that had been in the car. He told
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A man was shot and killed just before midnight Thursday near Cactus Road and 36th Street, according to Phoenix police. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
PHOENIX, AZ A man was shot and killed just before midnight Thursday near Cactus Road and 36th Street, according to Phoenix police.
Police said the victim was shot after an altercation with another man, who remained on the scene after the shooting.
No charges were filed as of Friday morning, and the case was submitted to the Maricopa County Attorney s Office for review, police said.
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The victim, who was not identified, was transported to a nearby hospital where he died, police said.
Maricopa County Attorney s Office held high-level meetings before protest gang charges
In the days before a group of demonstrators were arrested and charged as a criminal street gang, county prosecutors held multiple meetings with police, intelligence officers, and terrorism investigators to discuss police protest cases, according to internal calendar entries obtained by ABC15.
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In the days before a group of demonstrators were arrested and charged as a criminal street gang, Maricopa County prosecutors held multiple high-level meetings with police departments, intelligence officers, and terrorism investigators to discuss police protest cases, according to internal calendar entries obtained by ABC15.