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Man claims cop beat him in res
A south suburban man filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a South Holland police officer, claiming the officer beat him with a firearm in a restaurant bathroom and later gave false testimony about the incident.
Larry Hargrove, of Calumet City, claims South Holland police Officer Shawn Staples assaulted him in the bathroom of a Pepes Tacos restaurant in Calumet City in February 2009, according to a suit filed in U.S. District Court.
The suit alleges Staples followed Hargrove, an African American, into the bathroom and began to “hurl verbal insults” at him. The officer t... Read more
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Kenyan lawyers say 8,000 kille
The Oscar Foundation, a group of Kenyan lawyers, say that more than 8,000 Kenyans have been executed in a police crackdown on the banned Mungiki sect. A further 4,000 people are missing. The Oscar Foundation says it gathered the evidence from autopsy reports and interviews with relatives.
Earlier this month, Kenya's state-run National Commission on Human Rights, accused the Kenyan police of carrying out hundreds of extra-judicial killings. The commission investigated almost 500 bodies in Nairobi's mortuary and all the victims had been shot at close range in the back of the head.
The Mungiki sect was banned in 2002. The Mafia-like group, which has ties to Kenya's political establishment, has been held responsible for dozens of murders and robberies. The Kenyan police say both reports are fiction.
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