Former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson died in 2016 in Telford, Shropshire, at the age of 48
Prosecutors claim he and PC Mary-Ellen Bettley-Smith, who is charged with assault, used excessive force. Both deny wrongdoing.The 48-year-old died in the early hours of 15 August 2016 after the officers responded to reports of him acting erratically outside his father's house in Meadow Close, Telford.
"Mr Atkinson was apparently unconcerned when presented with the Taser, saying, 'I am going to take you to the gates of hell'," Ms Healy continued, paraphrasing PC Monk's interview.imprints of his bootlaces were left"Delivering two forceful kicks to Mr Atkinson's head cannot have been an act in reasonable self defence," prosecutors said.
A pathologist recorded a narrative cause of death, Ms Healy told the court, which found Mr Atkinson died due to cardio-respiratory arrest, "close in time to the deployment of Taser, followed by a brief period of restraint and blunt force trauma". PC Bettley-Smith is alleged to have used her baton to strike Mr Atkinson in the back while he lay incapacitated in the road.
This a case of excessive force not racism. Although the BBC portray it as because it gets more clicks.
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