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NEW ORLEANS -- Two police officers were reassigned to desk duty after a complaint that they beat a man walking in the French Quarter.
Ronald Coleman, 25, of New Orleans, said he was beaten and handcuffed by a group of seven plainclothes officers who mistook him for a pickpocket, punched him, wrestled him to the ground, and kept punching him even after he had been handcuffed.
"I said to them, 'What is this? I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything!'" said Coleman, a national legislative campaign coordinator for the grass-roots activist group ACORN. "They were yelli... Read more
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18 December 2007
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Police told to apologise over
A police force was today told to apologise to the family of a 10-year-old schoolboy for the way it handled an investigation into his death from a rare illness.
Robbie Powell’s father William claimed the former chief constable of Dyfed-Pows Police , Terry Grange, failed to hold two key officers to account.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it found no evidence of misconduct after looking into the seven complaints made by Mr Powell.
But it said the force should make a public apology to the family for an “inadequate and ineffective investigation”.
Robbie, of Ystradgynlais, south Wales, died of Addison’s disease in hospital in 1990 after a period of ill-health.
The condition is treatable but was missed by doctors, and in 2004 an inquest jury returned a verdict of natural causes aggravated by neglect.
Dyfed-Powys Police investigated between 1994-96 and 1999-2000 after the family complained about the doctors involved in Robbie’s care. The complaint related to falsified medical records and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
The investigation was put on hold and an external review started in September 2000 when Mr Powell raised concerns about the handling of the case.
Files were sent to the CPS, which advised against any prosecutions in April 2003.
The review also led to an external misconduct investigation by Avon and Somerset Constabulary which found that Dyfed-Powys Police was guilty of institutional incompetence.
IPCC Commissioner for Wales Tom Davies said: “We appreciate that this is a difficult time of year for Robert Powell’s family and again I would like to pass on my condolences to them.
“The effect of the inadequate and ineffective police investigation for the Powell family cannot be underestimated and we have recommended to Dyfed-Powys Police that the chief constable makes a public apology to them.”
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