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Police officers who murdered 92 year old Kathryn Johnston's plead to manslaughter charges today · 588 days ago

Today the two police officers implicated in the shooting death of 92 year old Atlanta, Georgia resident Kathryn Johnston plead guilty to manslaughter charges. They killed the elderly victim while performing a no-knock raid on her house. During the investigation one of the officers told federal investigators that one of the members of unit lied to him when he was told that the officer bought crack at Mrs. Johnson’s residence, a lie that was used to obtain the warrant.

Via TalkLeft:

Two Atlanta police officers made a second appearance in court today to plead guilty to felonies in the fatal shooting of a 92-year-old woman in her home. Officers Gregg Junnier and Jason R. Smith made their second stop Wednesday afternoon to plead guilty to violating the civil rights of Kathryn Johnston by killing her during a botched drug raid at her home Nov. 21. 2006.

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'50 Shots' police officers indicted on manslaughter charges · 626 days ago

The police officers who fired 50 shots into the car of unarmed victim Sean Bell killing him and wounding two others were indicted for first-degree and second-degree manslaughter as well as other charges on Friday, three months after the crime took place.

From the New York Times:


Two New York City police detectives were charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Sean Bell, the unarmed 23-year-old black man who died in a burst of 50 police bullets, the Queens District Attorney, Richard Brown, said at a news conference today.

The eight-count indictment was handed up by a grand jury on Friday and unsealed this morning. In it, Det. Michael Oliver, 35, who fired his pistol 31 times, and Det. Gerard Isnora, 28, an undercover officer who fired 11 shots, are charged with both first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in Mr. Bell’s death, Mr. Brown said.

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