
Criminal Justice
NAACP says Juan Delacruz not guilty verdict in Pamela Turner death unjust, wants him fired
Posted on · The NAACP and other local civil rights activists are prepared to hit the streets of Baytown and protest the ruling.
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Posted on · The NAACP and other local civil rights activists are prepared to hit the streets of Baytown and protest the ruling.
Posted on · Delacruz shot and killed Turner after he said she tried to evade an arrest, and she grabbed his Taser.
Posted on · Delacruz, who was indicted in Turner's killing, has been placed on paid administrative duty with the Baytown Police Department.
Posted on · Turner was fatally shot in 2019 by a police officer in the Houston suburb of Baytown, Texas, after a struggle over his stun gun. Attorney Ben Crump is also representing Turner’s family in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed April 8.
Posted on · The wrongful death lawsuit comes on what would have been Turner’s 46th birthday.
Posted on · Four Houston police officers were fired and one Baytown officer was indicted this month in two separate deadly shootings, amid a growing movement to hold police more accountable for deadly force.
Posted on · The Taser Pamela Turner took from the officer who tried to arrest her was not capable of shooting incapacitating darts at him.
Posted on · After a recent fatal police shooting in Baytown, a local criminal justice professor examines how the handling of such incidents has changed in the nearly half-decade since the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri sparked riots and demonstrations.
Posted on · These are some of the stories Houston Public Media is covering.
Posted on · The Texas Rangers have taken the lead in the investigation of the officer-involved shooting that killed Pamela Turner. Her family says her death was unjust.