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UN condemns executions carried
A brutal succession of hundreds of summary executions carried out with impunity by Kenyan security forces was roundly condemned today by a top UN investigator, who called on President Mwai Kibaki to sack his police chief and attorney general because of the outrage.
Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, issued one of the UN's strongest indictments yet of Kenya's culture of impunity, in a hard-hitting report following a 10-day investigation into the alleged killing of more than 1,000 gang members, insurgents, petty criminals and poli... Read more
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WINNFIELD, La. (AP) — A former police officer accused of repeatedly jolting a handcuffed man with a Taser before he died has been indicted on a manslaughter charge.
A spokesman for the Winn Parish district attorney's office says grand jurors also indicted former Winnfield police officer Scott Nugent on a charge of malfeasance in office.
Grand jurors spent two days hearing evidence in the death of 21-year-old Baron Pikes before they handed up the indictments Wednesday evening.
Pikes was shocked nine times with a 50,000-volt Taser as he was arrested on a drug possession warrant in January in central Louisiana.
Nugent was fired but is appealing. Nugent's lawyer says his client followed department protocol and didn't use excessive force.
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