"Eight Miami Beach police officers cluster near the driver’s side. Then they unleash a barrage of more than 100 bullets...In all, 16 bullets hit [the unarmed] Mr. Herisse, who was killed sitting behind the wheel [of his stopped car]. Four bystanders were wounded — two men and two women, part of a large crowd gathered on May 30, 2011, for the final day of Urban Beach Week, a raucous, yearly hip-hop and rap event in South Beach...The police have said that Mr. Herisse, a Boynton Beach resident, was driving recklessly for several blocks, nearly hitting several police officers and posing a danger to pedestrians. He was legally drunk, toxicology reports show...Meanwhile, the four bystanders who were seriously injured have not yet been classified as victims — barring them from access to a general fund for victims. They face substantial medical bills. One victim still has a bullet lodged near his heart; doctors decided not to remove it. Another was shot in the hip and required reconstructive surgery. A third victim was shot in the arm and leg and suffered a nervous breakdown. The fourth person was shot in the arm...The police chief at the time, Carlos Noriega, retired at the end of 2011. During his tenure, an officer was fired for taking a woman on a joy ride on his all-terrain vehicle while drunk and running over two tourists on the beach. Two others were fired for arresting and abusing a gay man. And one officer shot two people in four days, resigned and was later convicted of running a marijuana-growing operation." nytimes/2013/08/04/us/2-years-after-116-police-bullets-flew-few-answers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130804&_r=0
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:43:24 +0000
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