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UK: THREE MORE DEATHS INVOLVING POLICE

01 August 2011

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UK: THREE MORE DEATHS INVOLVING POLICE: INQUEST press release: Police must be reminded they cannot act with impunity following alarming rise in deaths after the use of force (pdf) and see: Deaths in police custody (link)

- Inquiry as rugby league player, 25, dies after he was pepper-sprayed and arrested by 'ELEVEN officers' (Daily Mail, link): "The mother-of-three claimed: 'What the police did was outrageous. He was handcuffed, on the floor with his legs restrained and they didn't even have the decency to pull up his pants. 'They seemed to be kneeing him in the back of the head. I counted 11 cops. They were all sat on him, giving him a kicking and giving him side digs. There was one woman officer, the rest were men, and she was getting her kicks in as well.... "They had banged his head on the floor and they were giving him punches. He was already handcuffed and he was restrained when I saw him."

- Bodybuilder dies after police blast him three times with a Taser gun (Daily Mail, link)

- Man dies after Taser arrest near Bolton - IPCC to investigate police use of Taser to subdue man, 53 – the third fatal arrest using stun gun or pepper spray in a week (Guardian, link)

These follow: Mark Duggan did not shoot at police, says Independent Police Complaints Commission (Guardian, link) The shooting by police that sparked the riots.

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