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  • 2012-04-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Kenneth Chamberlain Shooting (en)
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  • According to press accounts, the scenario outlined below is generally correct in its details. On 19 November 2011, 68-year-old White Plains resident Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a former Marine with heart problems, triggered his medical alert system pendant. When Mr. Chamberlain failed to respond to a system operator who came on the loudspeaker in his apartment to ask if he was okay, the operator signaled for an ambulance, which arrived at his apartment accompanied by police patrol cars. Although Mr. Chamberlain insisted he was in good health, police eventually entered his apartment, fired electric charges from Tasers and beanbags from shotguns at him, and then an officer shot him twice in the chest, killing him. The incident was recorded by a combination of the medical alert system phone, a security camera in the hall, and video recorders on the officers' Tasers. Accounts of the incident and viewpoints on whether the shooting was justified differ. Law enforcement representatives maintain that it was a warranted use of deadly force against an armed man who was threatening officers: Chamberlain's family maintains that police unnecessarily provoked an incident with an unarmed man and have called for criminal charges in the case: Although access to the audio and video recordings of the incident was granted to the Chamberlain family and their attorneys, that evidence was not immediately released to the public. The following Democracy Now! segment contains some of the audio and video captured during the incident: On 2 April 2012, the Westchester District Attorney’s Office stated that Chamberlain’s case would be presented to a grand jury within a month. The grand jury declined to indict any of the officers involved. A subsequent civil lawsuit filed by Chamberlain's family was rejected by a jury in November 2016. On 4 January 2018, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced it was closing its investigation into the death of Kenneth Chamberlain, citing insufficient evidence to bring charges against the officers involved: (en)
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