Earlier incident: Three weeks before Jessica Hernandez was shot and killed by Denver police while driving a stolen car, the 17-year-old had been accused of speeding and resisting arrest.
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Three weeks before Jessica Hernandez was shot and killed by Denver police while driving a stolen car, the 17-year-old had been accused in a separate incident of eluding an officer and resisting arrest, it was revealed today.
State troopers cited Hernandez January 1 for speeding down a highway north of Denver in her mother's car after the girl's driver's license had been revoked.
The citation shows Hernandez was driving 80mph in a 55mph zone, and the trooper noted that she was resisting arrest in a way that risked serious injury to him or others
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The Denver shooting also brought protests and a demand for a special prosecutor. On Friday, Hernandez's family called for a federal civil rights investigation into her death.
In a statement released in English and Spanish, Hernandez's parents said they want the US Department of Justice to investigate her death, and for US Attorney John Walsh in Colorado to oversee the criminal investigation of the officers involved.
The family said it doesn't trust Denver police to conduct a fair and timely investigation, and that the department has a history of exonerating its officers.
The statement came after the parents retained lawyer Qusair Mohamedbhai, who has been involved in a number of other high-profile civil rights cases against Denver police and sheriff's deputies.
Mohamedbhai represented a former Denver jail inmate to whom the city paid $3.3million in July to settle a jail abuse lawsuit.
The allegations in the lawsuit filed by Jamal Hunter were so egregious they prompted a federal judge to request a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the city's police and the sheriff's departments.
In the shooting of Hernandez, Police Chief Robert White has said the two officers repeatedly told her and four other teens to get out of the stolen car.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2933804/Jessica-Hernandez-shot-dead-Denver-police-driving-stolen-car-previously-accused-eluding-officer-resisting-arrest.html
Revealed: 17-year-old girl shot dead by Denver police while driving a stolen car was previously accused of eluding officer and resisting arrest
State troopers cited Jessica Hernandez January 1 for doing 80mph in 55mph zone
Citation claims the girl was resisting arrest in a way that risked serious injury to state trooper
Police shot and killed Hernandez early Monday morning in Denver
The officers involved were placed on leave and an investigation is ongoing
Hernandez's family have called for a federal civil rights investigation and independent autopsy
This is the fourth time in seven months a Denver officer fired at a vehicle
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:49 EST, 30 January 2015 | UPDATED: 19:12 EST, 30 January 2015
State troopers cited Hernandez January 1 for speeding down a highway north of Denver in her mother's car after the girl's driver's license had been revoked.
The citation shows Hernandez was driving 80mph in a 55mph zone, and the trooper noted that she was resisting arrest in a way that risked serious injury to him or others
[. . .]
The Denver shooting also brought protests and a demand for a special prosecutor. On Friday, Hernandez's family called for a federal civil rights investigation into her death.
In a statement released in English and Spanish, Hernandez's parents said they want the US Department of Justice to investigate her death, and for US Attorney John Walsh in Colorado to oversee the criminal investigation of the officers involved.
The family said it doesn't trust Denver police to conduct a fair and timely investigation, and that the department has a history of exonerating its officers.
The statement came after the parents retained lawyer Qusair Mohamedbhai, who has been involved in a number of other high-profile civil rights cases against Denver police and sheriff's deputies.
Mohamedbhai represented a former Denver jail inmate to whom the city paid $3.3million in July to settle a jail abuse lawsuit.
The allegations in the lawsuit filed by Jamal Hunter were so egregious they prompted a federal judge to request a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the city's police and the sheriff's departments.
In the shooting of Hernandez, Police Chief Robert White has said the two officers repeatedly told her and four other teens to get out of the stolen car.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2933804/Jessica-Hernandez-shot-dead-Denver-police-driving-stolen-car-previously-accused-eluding-officer-resisting-arrest.html
Revealed: 17-year-old girl shot dead by Denver police while driving a stolen car was previously accused of eluding officer and resisting arrest
State troopers cited Jessica Hernandez January 1 for doing 80mph in 55mph zone
Citation claims the girl was resisting arrest in a way that risked serious injury to state trooper
Police shot and killed Hernandez early Monday morning in Denver
The officers involved were placed on leave and an investigation is ongoing
Hernandez's family have called for a federal civil rights investigation and independent autopsy
This is the fourth time in seven months a Denver officer fired at a vehicle
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:49 EST, 30 January 2015 | UPDATED: 19:12 EST, 30 January 2015
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