New Jury has case of officer charged with violating rights
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Source: Associated Press
New Jury has case of officer charged with violating rights
Updated 9:47 pm, Friday, October 30, 2015
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Jurors began deliberations Friday following the second trial of an Alabama police officer charged with violating the rights of an Indian man he threw to the ground while trying to detain him.
Jurors deliberated for more than an hour in the late afternoon, and asked to again watch the video of Madison police officer Erick Parker taking Sureshbhai Patel, 58, to the ground, according to Al.com (http://bit.ly/1M6HPBG). They are scheduled to see the video when they reconvene Monday morning.
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Patel had been in the United States only a few days at the time of the encounter in February, which happened as Parker and another officer were checking a citizen's report of a suspicious person in a suburban neighborhood near Huntsville.
Patel, testifying through an interpreter, said he doesn't speak English and that when the officers spoke to him, he was trying to show them the home of his son, where he was staying at the time.
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Extremely violent technique used against Sureshbhai Patel: American police officer
By PTI | 30 Oct, 2015, 11.48AM IST
WASHINGTON: A former American police officer used an "extremely violent technique" against an Indian grandfather that left him partially paralysed early this year, a key police training official has told a US federal jury.
Testifying before a federal grand jury in Huntsville, Kenny Sanders, a sheriff's department captain who oversees the state's police training curriculum, said the conduct of former police officer Eric Parker "was not consistent with prevailing police standards" again ..
While on a walk, Parker stopped Patel, who did not knew English. When Patel did not respond, Parker hit him so hard on the ground that he was left partially paralysed.
The retrial of Parker, charged with violating Patel's civil rights following an encounter in a Madison neighbourhood off County Line Road on February 6, began this week. The jury has 14 members, of which 11 are women and three men.
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