Tag: Coconut Creek Police
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Coconut Creek police Taser shooting a homicide; Death by electrocution, lawyer says
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The death of a black man shot multiple times by Coconut Creek police firing Taser stun guns has been ruled a homicide by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office, FloridaBulldog.org has learned.
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Arrests near in Coconut Creek Taser case? PBA chief suggests death from natural causes
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Citing a public records exemption requiring a good faith belief that an arrest will be made soon, Broward’s Medical Examiner is withholding autopsy records about a black man who was repeatedly shot with Tasers by Coconut Creek Police officers.
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Finkelstein to feds: “Please do something” about improper police interrogations in Broward
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By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what he called the Broward State Attorney’s “long, distressing history” of condoning police use of “threatening, improper interrogation techniques.”
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No charges in Coconut Creek police misconduct case; prosecutors OK with enhanced interrogation
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org A Coconut Creek police officer who held an activated Taser stun gun at the ready while questioning a frightened 19-year-old theft suspect he made stand in a bathtub won’t be charged with a crime. Civil rights advocates call the police interrogation of Blake L. Robinson a disturbing example of police misconduct…
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Coconut Creek cops won’t be prosecuted for passing law enforcement computer data to friend
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org The Broward State Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute three Coconut Creek police officers mixed up in a scheme to improperly access confidential law enforcement databases for personal reasons.
