Organizers of a Sunday protest — which turned violent when a passer-by appeared to take a protester to the ground — held a peaceful gathering Monday.
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What started as a peaceful protest Sunday turned bloody after a brawl broke out in a crosswalk on the Strip. Several people were arrested or cited after protesters briefly blocked traffic on the Strip near The Venetian during a demonstration that protesters dubbed “Black Lives Still Don’t Matter.”
Former Nevada Assemblyman Wendell Williams, who sought to ban the use of chokeholds by police more than 25 years ago, is calling for a public reexamination of the Metropolitan Police Department’s neck restraint policy after a man died while in custody last week.
Tashii Brown died after a Metropolitan Police Department officer stunned him seven times with a Taser, punched him several times and put him in an unapproved chokehold.
A Las Vegas police officer stunned Tashii Brown seven times with a Taser and held him in a neck hold for more than a minute early Sunday before the Las Vegas man died.
Weekend death of Tashii Brown, 40, of Las Vegas occurred after he was stunned with a Taser, punched and put in a neck controversial neck hold.
A man who was described as behaving erratically lost consciousness and died early Sunday after Las Vegas police officers used a Taser and a neck restraint maneuver on him outside a Strip hotel, the department said.