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A Northern California city has agreed to pay $7.5 million to the family of a 30-year-old man who died days after police restrained him in 2020, the parties announced Wednesday, settling a wrongful death claim that the family filed.
Civil rights attorneys and an advocate are questioning the actions of East Bay police officers who fatally shot this spring a 19-year-old Newark resident carrying an airsoft gun.
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Bobbing for bad apples: True accountability still elusive in the SFPD slaying of Keita OâNeil July 28, 2021 by Jeremy Miller On Dec. 1, 2017, Keita âIckyâ OâNeil was shot to death by former rookie police officer Christopher Samayoa, who was only four days on the job at the time of the killing. Icky was a suspect in the carjacking of a California state lottery van, a vehicle which he had just recently abandoned when he was gunned down. Six days later, on Dec. 7, 2017, a customary SFPD townhall meeting revealed damning details, including the shooterâs own unintentiona...
Conspiracy claim stays in lawsuit over rapper's killing by police Erik Ortiz A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit filed on behalf of Willie McCoy, a young rapper fatally shot by police in Vallejo, California, in 2019 can proceed on its claim that officers conspired to harm him, an allegation that rarely sticks in cases involving use of force. U.S. District Court Judge John Mendez in Sacramento denied Vallejo's attempt to have the conspiracy claim dismissed in the McCoy family's lawsuit, writing that "the Court finds that an agreement or meeting of the minds could be in...