Trinita Farmer, the mother of Tashii Brown who died in Las Vegas police custody, spoke in public about her son’s case for the first time during a Thursday screening of the documentary film, “What Happened in Vegas.”
Tashii Brown
A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of the children of a man who died while being restrained by a Las Vegas police officer.
The Clark County district attorney’s office announced Monday that Metropolitan Police Department officer Kenneth Lopera had been charged with involuntary manslaughter and oppression under color of office.
An online fundraiser for a Las Vegas police officer facing criminal charges in connection with in-custody death last month has raised more than $30,000 since going live Tuesday.
A Las Vegas police officer told officer Kenneth Lopera to release his chokehold on Tashii Brown, but the officer continued his hold for another 46 seconds, a Metropolitan Police Department report on the officer’s arrest shows.
The officer involved in the death of Tashi Brown will face criminal charges, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo announced Monday.
At least 100 mourners from across the country gathered together Saturday evening to remember Tashii Brown, the man who died last month while in police custody.
Organizers of a Sunday protest — which turned violent when a passer-by appeared to take a protester to the ground — held a peaceful gathering Monday.
What started as a peaceful protest Sunday turned bloody after a brawl broke out in a crosswalk on the Strip. Several people were arrested or cited after protesters briefly blocked traffic on the Strip near The Venetian during a demonstration that protesters dubbed “Black Lives Still Don’t Matter.”
Former Nevada Assemblyman Wendell Williams, who sought to ban the use of chokeholds by police more than 25 years ago, is calling for a public reexamination of the Metropolitan Police Department’s neck restraint policy after a man died while in custody last week.
The death of Tashi Brown would have been a lot more controversial if it happened five years ago.
Tashii Brown died after a Metropolitan Police Department officer stunned him seven times with a Taser, punched him several times and put him in an unapproved chokehold.
A Las Vegas police officer stunned Tashii Brown seven times with a Taser and held him in a neck hold for more than a minute early Sunday before the Las Vegas man died.
Weekend death of Tashii Brown, 40, of Las Vegas occurred after he was stunned with a Taser, punched and put in a neck controversial neck hold.
A man who was described as behaving erratically lost consciousness and died early Sunday after Las Vegas police officers used a Taser and a neck restraint maneuver on him outside a Strip hotel, the department said.
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