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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:48 PM Sep 2015

Mistrial for Alabama police officer charged after throwing Indian man

Source: Reuters

A U.S. judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of an Alabama policeman on trial for violating an Indian man's rights by throwing him to the ground and injuring him badly during an encounter captured on video, local media reported.

Eric Parker, 26, was tried in federal court on accusations that he used unreasonable force while a police officer in Madison, Alabama, during the February incident.

A jury in Huntsville, Alabama deadlocked on whether to convict or acquit him of a single charge of depriving an Indian grandfather of his civil rights, according to television station WHNT and local news website AL.com.

If convicted, Parker would have faced up to 10 years in prison.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/11/us-usa-police-alabama-idUSKCN0RB2HG20150911

US | Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:53pm EDT

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Mistrial for Alabama police officer charged after throwing Indian man (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2015 OP

Disgusting. The evidence was incontrovertible. nt tblue37 Sep 2015 #1

I just hope the retry him yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #3

DAMN! elleng Sep 2015 #2

they probably think he did what he was accused of JI7 Sep 2015 #4

Bingo !! n/t jaysunb Sep 2015 #5

Sadly, you're likely correct. Nailzberg Sep 2015 #6

I live here. Madison is right outside of Huntsville. bamademo Sep 2015 #12

"Testifying in his own defense during the trial this week, Live and Learn Sep 2015 #7

The cop, Parker, is white, so what is the make up of the jury in Alabama? YabaDabaNoDinoNo Sep 2015 #8

Prosecution plans to retry case against Madison officer Eric Parker ramblin_dave Sep 2015 #9

"Parker said he was following his training" sulphurdunn Sep 2015 #10

I remember this. DirkGently Sep 2015 #11

It should also be noted that the suspicious neighbor thought that Mr. Patel Chakab Sep 2015 #13

tblue37

(65,391 posts)

1. Disgusting. The evidence was incontrovertible. nt

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:49 PM

Sep 2015

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

3. I just hope the retry him

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:53 PM

Sep 2015

Many times after a mistrial, the DA drops the charges all together.

elleng

(130,955 posts)

2. DAMN!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:53 PM

Sep 2015

JI7

(89,250 posts)

4. they probably think he did what he was accused of

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:55 PM

Sep 2015

But that white people who attack minorities should not be punished for it.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)

5. Bingo !! n/t

Reply to JI7 (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:57 PM

Sep 2015

Nailzberg

(4,610 posts)

6. Sadly, you're likely correct.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:57 PM

Sep 2015

bamademo

(2,193 posts)

12. I live here. Madison is right outside of Huntsville.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 10:04 AM

Sep 2015

No, white people did not think it was okay at all to attack a minority. Everyone I know was outraged. I did not hear one person defend the officer and he was fired from his job by his white police chief. We all feel this is a blot on our city which is very progressive.

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)

7. "Testifying in his own defense during the trial this week,

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 06:58 PM

Sep 2015

Parker said he was following his training and felt he had no other option." No other option? Really

YabaDabaNoDinoNo

(460 posts)

8. The cop, Parker, is white, so what is the make up of the jury in Alabama?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 07:16 PM

Sep 2015

The linked article does not say.

Course it only take one to have a jury and it is Alabama and all that.

ramblin_dave

(1,546 posts)

9. Prosecution plans to retry case against Madison officer Eric Parker

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 07:27 PM

Sep 2015

Prosecution plans to retry case against Madison officer Eric Parker

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)

10. "Parker said he was following his training"

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 08:39 PM

Sep 2015

Sounds eerily similar to the Nuremberg defense.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)

11. I remember this.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 12:57 AM

Sep 2015

The gentleman was just walking down the street. They threw him to the ground because he didn't understand their stupid questions. A suspicious neighbor called it in.

Chakab

(1,727 posts)

13. It should also be noted that the suspicious neighbor thought that Mr. Patel

Reply to DirkGently (Reply #11)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 04:31 PM

Sep 2015

was black from a distance and told the dispatcher that he appeared to be casing the neighborhood and looking through garage door windows when he was in fact just strolling down the sidewalk. That bullshit 9/11 call probably had a lot to do with how he was treated.

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