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Saturday 24 december 2016
Affidavit: Road-rage killing suspect said car was too close

JILL BLEED the suspect’s arrest. ing death last week of shopping trip with his grand- not realize her grandson
Associated Press Gary Eugene Holmes, 33, Acen (AY’-sin) King. mother Dec. 17 when he had been shot until she ar-
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A turned himself in at police Holmes pleaded not guilty was struck by gunfire. The rived at the shopping cen-
Little Rock man who fired his headquarters Thursday to the preliminary charges boy’s grandmother, Kim ter, about 10 miles away,
gun into a car, striking and night, Little Rock police said and was ordered jailed King-Macon, told authori- and saw Acen slumped
killing a 3-year-old boy, did in a statement Friday. Hol- without bond after a brief ties that she had stopped over in his seat. In 911 re-
so because he thought the mes was being held in the video arraignment Friday at a stop sign in the pouring cordings released by po-
driver of that vehicle was Pulaski County jail on pre- morning. Court records do rain when a man honked lice, a woman can be
following him too closely, liminary charges of capital not list an attorney who his horn, then got out of his heard screaming, “Acen
police said in an affidavit murder and committing a can speak on his behalf. car and fired a gun. has been shot! Oh my
released Friday following terroristic act in the shoot- Police said Acen was on a King-Macon said she did God!”q

Lawyer: Texas police must show arrest not racially motivated

DAVID WARREN why she hadn’t taught her
Associated Press son not to litter.
DALLAS (AP) — The lawyer Craig says that regardless
for a black woman who’s of whether the boy littered,
seen on video being wres- the man did not have the
tled to the ground and ar- right to “put his hands on
rested by a white officer him.” The officer says, “Why
said Friday the burden is on not?”
police to prove the officer’s One of Craig’s daughters
actions weren’t racially tries to push her mother
motivated. away, but the officer forces
Attorney S. Lee Merritt said Craig and the teen to the
police in Fort Worth and ground.
elsewhere in the country He points a stun gun into
have shown “discriminato- Craig’s back and then at
ry behavior” toward minori- her daughter when she tries
ties. He told The Associated to approach. Craig, her
Press that his client, Jac- daughter and a second
queline Craig, is not cur- daughter who intervened
rently considering a federal were arrested on charges
civil rights claim against po- that include disorderly con-
lice. duct. All three are now out
She wants to see the Fort of jail and back home.
Worth officer fired and oth- Video of the confrontation
er actions taken by authori- People protest against the Fort Worth Police Department at the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort posted to Facebook has
ties, Merritt said. Worth, Texas. A white Texas police officer was placed on restricted duty Thursday while an internal been viewed more than 2.5
“Everything that was done investigation looks into a video showing the officer wrestling a black woman to the ground before million times.
arresting her and her two teenage daughters.
that day was done incor- (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP) The officer allowed the situ-
rectly,” he said. ation to escalate, Merritt
The officer, whose name with a man who she said of Wednesday’s incident, choked” her son. said, and did not file a re-
hasn’t been released, re- had physically confronted Craig can be heard tell- The officer engages Craig port on Craig’s claim that
sponded to a call for ser- her 7-year-old son for litter- ing the officer that the in a conversation that her neighbor accosted her
vice after Craig argued ing. In the cellphone video man had “grabbed and quickly escalates. He asks son.q
Former Milwaukee officer pleads not guilty in shooting

TODD RICHMOND public to see body camera sioner Barry Phillips ordered plaint, which alleges Heag- District Attorney John Ch-
Associated Press footage of the incident. Heaggan-Brown to go to gan-Brown fired the fatal isholm has refused to re-
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former Dominique Heaggan- trial during the proceeding, shot even though Smith lease the footage publicly,
Milwaukee police officer Brown’s attorney, Steven which lasted less than five was unarmed, is based calling it evidence. Outside
accused of fatally shooting Kohn, waived the hearing minutes. Heaggan-Brown largely on footage from court Friday, Chisholm said
a black man during a traf- and entered a not guilty was charged last week in body cameras that Heag- he had been prepared to
fic stop waived his right to a plea to the charge of fel- connection with 23-year- gan-Brown and his partner play the video during the
preliminary hearing Friday, ony reckless homicide for old Sylville Smith’s death in were wearing during the hearing if it had happened
erasing a chance for the his client. Court Commis- August. The criminal com- incident. as scheduled.q