New York Personal Injury Attorney Anthony Gair discusses killing of deaf man by Detroit Police

In July 2001, New York Personal Injury Attorney Anthony Gair, appeared on Court TV to comment on the Trial of Detroit police officers who shot and killed a deaf and mute man whom they say was "menacing" them with a garden rake. Relatives and neighbors who witnessed the shooting of 39-year-old Errol Shaw Sr. said police ignored their shouts that the man could not hear or speak and their pleas not to shoot him. The fatal shooting was at the time the latest for the Detroit Police Department, which in 2001 lead the US in police killings.
Anthony Gair enjoys a national reputation in the area of civil rights litigation in connection with police misconduct. One of his most notable cases in this area of the law was his heading up the team that represented the Diallo family for the wrongful death of their son Amadou, who was shot 19 times by members of the New York City Police Department's Street Crimes Unit—a case that was extensively covered by the national media

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[CarolineAnnMartinCAT]

So sad and unfortunately not the first time that something like this has happened....