Man wanted on elder abuse charges, accused of tying up boarding home resident
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John Grant, 56, is charged with injury to an elderly individual.
According to court documents, he physically abused 65-year-old Clifton Barber in May 2020 at an unlicensed boarding home in the 5800 block of Schevers in southeast Houston.
After Barber got sick, another unlicensed caretaker took him to Ben Taub Hospital, where he died. I was in the room when he passed away, said Farrell Gotch, Barber s brother. His arm was swollen and his leg was swollen. He was abused.
An autopsy report showed Barber had injuries that were consistent with being tied at his wrists, as well as blunt force injuries. The report says Barber ultimately died from sepsis from an infection on his wrist.
Numerous officers have been indicted after Houston police shot and killed a married couple while conducting a drug raid based on a bogus warrant.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at a June 8, 2020, memorial service for George Floyd. (Courthouse News photo/Cameron Langford)
HOUSTON (CN) The families of a couple shot and killed by Houston police after they barged into their home looking for heroin in January 2019 brought federal lawsuits Wednesday night against the city and a narcotics squad.
Represented by separate counsel the Gallagher Law Firm and Doyle LLP the civil suits were filed in Houston only days after a Harris County grand jury indicted five current and former Houston police involved in the raid on charges ranging from murder to records tampering.
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The city of Detroit said Tuesday that it will dismiss most misdemeanor citations issued last spring during several days of protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Most of the tickets written May 31 and June 2 were for curfew violations as hundreds of people demonstrated in downtown Detroit. In all, the city expects to dismiss 238 of the 245 tickets issued on those three days, said Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia.
Dozens of demonstrators violated Detroit’s curfew requiring people to be off city streets after 8 p.m. and received appearance citations, Garcia said in a statement. Others were ticketed for disruptive or violent behavior. Police made arrests and used tear gas to disperse some of the crowds.