A Black Man dies after Las Vegas pigs use stun gun & a chokehold to "restrain" him…

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http://news3lv.com/news/local/mother-of-man-who-died-in-lvmpd-custody-they-killed-my-boy

Mother of man who died in LVMPD custody: 'They killed my boy'

"They said he went for help and then everything just went crazy and they killed my boy," said Brown's mother, Trinita Farmer.

Brown's family said he was recently diagnosed manic depressant and concede he has had troubles. In fact, Brown was picked up in Hawaii in 2009 on attempted murder charges.

According to a recent report, LVMPD officers used the controversial neck restraint maneuver 51 times last year.

However, the ACLU of Nevada is calling for the department to stop using the tactic.

"It looks like a chokehold – whether or not it's being applied properly is the question," said ACLU Nevada Executive Director Tod Story. "We would like to see this particular practice stopped … we think it is a use of excessive force and unnecessary."

LVMPD plans to address the media on the incident at the Venetian Hotel on Wednesday.

 

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Once again.. Smdh...

 

[konceptjones]

"lateral vascular neck restraint"???

we trying to sugar coat "choke a nigga out" these days???

 

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[rickmogul]

It's almost here.

 

[MasterJayN100]

a damn shame

 

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https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...-in-mans-neck-hold-death-to-be-charged-video/

Las Vegas police officer involved in man’s neck hold death to be charged

The officer who stunned Tashi Brown seven times with a Taser and held him in an unauthorized neck hold for more than a minute before his death will face criminal charges, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo announced Monday.

At an afternoon news briefing, Lombardo said officer Kenneth Lopera will face charges of involuntary manslaughter and oppression under the color of office.

The announcement came shortly after Brown’s death was ruled a homicide by the Clark County coroner’s office.

In a statement, Clark County Coroner Jon Fudenberg said Brown died from “asphyxia due to police restraint procedures and other significant conditions included methamphetamine intoxication and cardiomegaly (an enlarged heart).”

Brown, 40, of Las Vegas, died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center after a struggle with police Officer Kenneth Lopera.

According to police, Brown, who also at times used his mother’s surname of Farmer, approached two uniformed officers about 1 a.m. inside The Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South. He was described as “acting erratic” and paranoid and said the man told the officers “people were chasing him.”

 

[Madame_CJSkywalker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXMKyo-GUU

Once again.. Smdh...

Wow

Why did i even watch

 

[Lefty_]

You can't beat your case on the street.

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

Wait so cops say ppl were chasing him they tazed him after.

So what happened to the ppl that were chasing him?

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

Why are they even telling us this shit and showing it when all "truth" comes straight from a pigs mouth anyway?

The fuck we gon do with this information the facts are said more than shown now days maybe the game is to be sold not to be told smh

Every damn week with this shit as if they emotion is more crucial than the rest of the world, they can get pissed with a weapon all year but blacks cant get pissed after they kill our own smh

 

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https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/871916143698739200

 

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http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/report-details-what-led-to-metro-officers-charges/733560906

Report details what led to Metro officer's charges

LAS VEGAS - Metro Police Officer Kenneth Lopera struck Tashii Farmer 10 to 12 times in the head, used an unauthorized choke hold and held him in the choke hold 45 seconds after another officer asked him to release Farmer, according to his arrest report.

Officer Lopera, 31, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and oppression under the color of office. His arrest marks the first time in nearly 30 years that a Metro officer faces charges in connection with an in-custody death.

Brown's cause of death was "asphyxia due to police restraint procedures and other significant conditions, including methamphetamine intoxication and cardiomegaly (enlarged heart)."

The arrest report details how Farmer approached Officer Lopera asking where to find a water fountain. A few minutes later, he asked for an escort to valet because people were chasing him. Farmer began to run and Officer Lopera chased him.

The chase ended up outside the Venetian Hotel where Farmer approached a truck. Officer Lopera used a taser gun seven times on Farmer knocking him to the ground. There was only five second intervals between each tasing incident. The department has a limit of three tases.

According to the report, Officer Lopera told Farmer to get on his stomach several times but never gave Farmer a reasonable opportunity to comply with commands before tasing him again. Verbal commands also contradicted each other, telling Farmer "don't move followed by a command to "get on your stomach."

The report said, Officer Lopera then straddled Farmer's back and struck him in the head 10 to 12 times. Farmer appeared to protect his face but didn't display aggressive resistance. The officer then put Farmer in a "rear naked choke." It is a technique not approved by Metro.

"Officer Lopera also held the 'rear naked choke' for forty four seconds after being told to let go by Officer Tran," the report said.

The police union is supporting Lopera and has set up a GoFundMe page for him.

"I know he didn't go to work going,'Boy I really wish I'd get involved in a high-profile critical incident today.' Quite the contrary, at this point. I'm sure he wishes that it didn't happen at all. But he was out doing the job of a police officer and sometimes we have a bad end result," said Steve Grammas, LVPPA.

The charges Lopera was arrested under each carry a maximum of four years in prison.

 

[KingFreeman]

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/report-details-what-led-to-metro-officers-charges/733560906

Report details what led to Metro officer's charges

LAS VEGAS - Metro Police Officer Kenneth Lopera struck Tashii Farmer 10 to 12 times in the head, used an unauthorized choke hold and held him in the choke hold 45 seconds after another officer asked him to release Farmer, according to his arrest report.

Officer Lopera, 31, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and oppression under the color of office. His arrest marks the first time in nearly 30 years that a Metro officer faces charges in connection with an in-custody death.

Brown's cause of death was "asphyxia due to police restraint procedures and other significant conditions, including methamphetamine intoxication and cardiomegaly (enlarged heart)."

The arrest report details how Farmer approached Officer Lopera asking where to find a water fountain. A few minutes later, he asked for an escort to valet because people were chasing him. Farmer began to run and Officer Lopera chased him.

The chase ended up outside the Venetian Hotel where Farmer approached a truck. Officer Lopera used a taser gun seven times on Farmer knocking him to the ground. There was only five second intervals between each tasing incident. The department has a limit of three tases.

According to the report, Officer Lopera told Farmer to get on his stomach several times but never gave Farmer a reasonable opportunity to comply with commands before tasing him again. Verbal commands also contradicted each other, telling Farmer "don't move followed by a command to "get on your stomach."

The report said, Officer Lopera then straddled Farmer's back and struck him in the head 10 to 12 times. Farmer appeared to protect his face but didn't display aggressive resistance. The officer then put Farmer in a "rear naked choke." It is a technique not approved by Metro.

"Officer Lopera also held the 'rear naked choke' for forty four seconds after being told to let go by Officer Tran," the report said.

The police union is supporting Lopera and has set up a GoFundMe page for him.

"I know he didn't go to work going,'Boy I really wish I'd get involved in a high-profile critical incident today.' Quite the contrary, at this point. I'm sure he wishes that it didn't happen at all. But he was out doing the job of a police officer and sometimes we have a bad end result," said Steve Grammas, LVPPA.

The charges Lopera was arrested under each carry a maximum of four years in prison.

WTF

 

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[Turfaholic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dDrQVkQYA

I met him shortly after. He was on serious damage control. But he came off as legit. He was real remorseful. Look like he hadn't slept in days.

 

[Kwan Dai]

But here's the real issue.

The police union is supporting Lopera and has set up a GoFundMe page for him.

"I know he didn't go to work going,'Boy I really wish I'd get involved in a high-profile critical incident today.' Quite the contrary, at this point. I'm sure he wishes that it didn't happen at all. But he was out doing the job of a police officer and sometimes we have a bad end result," said Steve Grammas, LVPPA.

The charges Lopera was arrested under each carry a maximum of four years in prison.

 

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https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/aug/21/officer-arraigned-on-manslaughter-charge-in-chokeh/

Officer arraigned on manslaughter charge in chokehold death

A suspended police officer was arraigned Monday on a manslaughter charge in the on-duty chokehold death of an unarmed man he chased outside a Las Vegas Strip resort last May.

Kenneth Lopera was not asked to enter a plea, and a Las Vegas justice of the peace allowed him to remain free on $6,000 bail pending a Sept. 25 preliminary hearing of evidence in the death of Tashii S. Brown.

Lopera, 31, is the first Las Vegas police officer to face a manslaughter charge since 1990. He also is charged with oppression under color of office, and could face up to eight years in prison if he is convicted of both charges.

Brown's death spawned protest, a federal excessive force and wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Brown's children, and calls for Las Vegas police to quit teaching to officers a restraint technique called lateral vascular neck restraint.

Defense attorneys Tony Sgro and David Roger, and Las Vegas Police Protective Association official Steve Grammas who also attended Lopera's brief court appearance, declined afterward to comment. Grammas has said Lopera did nothing criminal and was using a department-approved method to restrain Brown.

Brown, 40, also used the name Tashii Farmer. An autopsy found that he was intoxicated by methamphetamine and had an enlarged heart, but the Clark County coroner ruled that his May 14 death was from asphyxiation due to the police chokehold.

Police said a sweaty, agitated and disoriented Brown approached Lopera and another patrol officer early May 14 in a Venetian resort coffee shop, said he thought someone was after him, and then fled through employee-only hallways into a parking area behind the hotel.

Lopera's body camera showed that he gave chase, and police later said the officer reported that he thought Brown was going to try to carjack a pickup truck.

Police said Lopera violated several departmental policies when he zapped Brown with a stun gun seven times, repeatedly punched him in the head and neck, and then restrained Brown from behind for more than a minute with what was described as an unapproved chokehold.

Officials said Lopera told other police at the scene that he subdued Brown using a "rear naked choke."

The technique, familiar in the world of mixed martial arts, is supposed to restrict blood flow through the carotid artery to the brain without impeding breathing.

Lopera was suspended without pay following his arrest June 5.

Three Las Vegas police officers were indicted on involuntary manslaughter and oppression charges following the July 1990 chokehold death of 39-year-old Charles Bush. Their trial ended when a jury deadlocked, and they were not retried.

Smh @ him being free on 6k bail...

 

[Copper]

Enlarged jaw, premature hairloss, cant control temper... Yall do the math..

You saying shrek did this?