http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/16/family-awarded-297-million-in-trooper-crash-case Comments On: Family awarded $2.97 million in trooper crash case by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:10:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
Erin spent time around the Jones Center for Families, in east Springdale. The employees knew him well and looked after him. The place was not a long walk from his home. Erin could not drive.

Occasionally some mischievous teens would offer Erin a ride to one place or another. Instead of giving him a ride they would sometimes drive him off into the countryside and let him off in someplace totally alien to him with his cognitive inabilities. A few times he became lost and depended upon the kindness of strangers to return him home. When Erin became confused, which was often, he would reach in his pocket for a small ball and rub it, handle it.

I hope there's a special place in hell for that goddamned prosecutor in Benton County who prevented a grand jury from seeing tapes of the murderer's action and who let that murdering sonofabitch of a cop off with 54 days in jail and state trooper's retirement.
Stay away from the corruption, dishonesty and injustice in Benton County.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:20:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
The wide-brimmed hat they wear seems to impart a cowboy mentality to the troopers - drive fast, shoot first, assume everyone's a criminal.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:01:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
At 7 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, the disabled Hamley was walking alone on highway 412 just outside the community of Tontitown along the Benton-Washington county line when several Washington County deputies surrounded him.

Four minutes later, before being identified, and while lying on the ground, a shotgun slug fired by Larry Norman, an Arkansas State Trooper breaking police protocol and procedure killed Joseph Erin Hamley. The fatal shooting was recorded from multiple vantage points on dashboard cameras of the various police cruisers present.
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Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:29:01 -0600 Arkansas Times "At least he didn't throw her down on the pavement and shoot her with a shotgun."
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:21:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
But wait, the deceased school teacher wasn't mentally handicapped.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:18:30 -0600 Arkansas Times