"My aunt was basically tortured like an animal or something." Delafield's nephew, Ryan Delafield, told First Coast News months ago. More HERE
As reported by many News Outlets and USA: Amnesty International Nine months after Emily Delafield, 56, died after being tased by police, her family has few answers about the events that led to her death. "This has been a very tragic and sad situation," nephew Ryan Delafield said. According to Green Cove Springs Police, the wheelchair-bound Delafield was arguing with family members and swinging knives and a hammer when they arrived at her home. Ryan Delafield says he is his aunt’s personal representative. In the weeks after her death he needed a death certificate for matters of her estate. "May, June, July... it was three months before we got the death certificate," Delafield said.
On the death certificate, the Medical Examiner cited that the death was a homicide. To get more answers, Delafield says in the fight to get information, he was passed from department to department.
"I called the State Attorney's Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement - Jacksonville Regional Office, the Medical Examiner… and the City of Green Cove Springs Police Department," said Delafield. More HERE
AAPP: Where is the NAACP and other Civil Rights group with this situation?
As reported by many News Outlets and USA: Amnesty International Nine months after Emily Delafield, 56, died after being tased by police, her family has few answers about the events that led to her death. "This has been a very tragic and sad situation," nephew Ryan Delafield said. According to Green Cove Springs Police, the wheelchair-bound Delafield was arguing with family members and swinging knives and a hammer when they arrived at her home. Ryan Delafield says he is his aunt’s personal representative. In the weeks after her death he needed a death certificate for matters of her estate. "May, June, July... it was three months before we got the death certificate," Delafield said.
On the death certificate, the Medical Examiner cited that the death was a homicide. To get more answers, Delafield says in the fight to get information, he was passed from department to department.
"I called the State Attorney's Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement - Jacksonville Regional Office, the Medical Examiner… and the City of Green Cove Springs Police Department," said Delafield. More HERE
AAPP: Where is the NAACP and other Civil Rights group with this situation?
Emily Delafield
Ryan Delafield
Law Suit
UPDATE: MyClaySun.com: Woman's family suing Green Cove over Taser death
More on the case below:
Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 times
Democratic Underground - Police knew Emily Delafield and had been ...
My Disability Blog: Tasering the Mentally Ill
Newsvine - 56-Yr Old Woman in Wheelchair Tasered to Death by Police
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Law Suit
UPDATE: MyClaySun.com: Woman's family suing Green Cove over Taser death
More on the case below:
Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 times
Democratic Underground - Police knew Emily Delafield and had been ...
My Disability Blog: Tasering the Mentally Ill
Newsvine - 56-Yr Old Woman in Wheelchair Tasered to Death by Police
Epidemic Of Police Brutality Sweeps America
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4 comments:
This is crazy. I hope her family sues and gets millions. Sometimes that's the only thing folks in government understands...Where are you, Al Sharpton? Jessie?
Get the family publicity. Embarass them so much that they settle for millions to make it go away.
Was there really no other way to resolve this?
If they could get close enough to safely taser this woman ten times there had to another alternative to resolve this situation. I believe this happened because the victim was mentally disabled and black. She was probably more of a danger to herself than to others. Deaths by taser are something that black leaders need to start confronting seriously.
This is wrong on so many levels. I'm glad that you are sharing this information with your blog readers. I hope that the family is successful in their law suit...
peace, Villager
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