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Lawyer seeks to reopen investigation of police shooting of Eugene Ellison

Michael Laux, attorney for the family of Eugene Ellison, slain by Little Rock police in his apartment in 2010, has written Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley asking him to reopen a criminal investigation of that death.
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Oklahoma ACLU seeks criminal charges in police killing of unarmed Tulsa man

The ACLU has issued a news release calling for criminal charges against Tulsa police officers who stunned then fatally shot an unarmed man whose car had broken down. It is, at a minimum, another illustration of the problem in the U.S. of how many police view a lot of the people they serve.
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Police, race and deadly force

New additions today to the debate on racial influence in police use of deadly force.

Police protests reach Arkansas border

Police shootings prompted demonstrations across the country, including at the Arkansas border, and provocative comments by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen.
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Attorneys for man shot by police will press for a new trial of shooter

Attorneys for the family of Bobby Moore, killed in 2012 by a Little Rock police officer investigating car break-ins, will hold a news conference today and call for another attempt to prosecute Josh Hastings in the death, citing a witness never interviewed by police.

Washington Post examines Little Rock police killing

The fatal shooting of Eugene Ellison, 67, in his apartment by Little Rock police working as private security is examined today by the Washington Post.
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The open line. Plus: The thin blue line

Tonight's open line is here. The seemingly unprovoked slaying of a Houston-area deputy sheriff who was pumping gas will be the lead news story on TV networks tonight and for days to come. 

Lawsuit planned against LR police over teen's shooting death

Attorneys said today they expect to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against former Little Rock officer Josh Hastings, the former police chief, Stuart Thomas, and the city of Little Rock over the Aug. 12, 2012 shooting death of Bobby Moore.
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Wendell Griffen comments on police slayings

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, who writes frequently on police-community relationships, has a new blog post about the slayings of two New York police officers as they sat in a patrol car by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a man with a lengthy record of crime and mental instability who left social media comments on recent highly publicized police killings of suspects.

8th Circuit hears case of LR cop killing of Eugene Ellison

Here's coverage from St. Louis of arguments before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in which Little Rock cops are trying to get dimissed from a lawsuit over the shooting death of Eugene Ellison, 67, in his Little Rock apartment
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Justice Department: Excessive use of force by Cleveland police

The Justice Department has found excessive use of force by Cleveland police and the agency will develop a court-enforced consent decree to improve practices, including use of an independent monitor to oversee reforms.

Another hung jury on Hastings manslaughter charge; prosecutor will retry

David Koon is at the courthouse this morning as a jury resumed deliberations in the manslaughter trial of Josh Hastings, a former Little Rock police officer, who fatally shot Bobby Moore III, 15, as he drove a car in a West Little Rock apartment complex parking lot last August.
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