An 11-year-old boy called 911 about a domestic disturbance in his home. The police arrived and shot the child.
The boy, Aderrien Murry, survived the shooting but “nearly lost his life”, his lawyer, Carlos Moore, said. in a Facebook feed earlier this week.
Murry was airlifted to hospital and suffered a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs. He is “still in pain emotionally and mentally”, Moore said at a press conference Thursday at Indianola City Hall in Mississippi.
Murry called 911 for help early Saturday morning at the request of his mother, Nakala Murry, who was having a confrontation with the father of another of her children. Officers were told the man, who was unarmed, had exited the back door and there were three children inside the house, according to Moore.
The cops told everyone in the house to come out with their hands up, prompting Aderrien Murry to come out of his room. An officer “shot him immediately as he had his hands up and came around the corner,” Moore said Thursday.
The officer who shot the boy, Greg Capers, has been placed on paid administrative leave.
Meet the Sergeant. Indianola Police Department Greg Capers. It was the cop who shot the unarmed 11-year-old Aderrien Murry after the boy called 911 to ask his mother for help. To date, neither the officer nor the city has told the family why. #JusticeForAderrienMurry pic.twitter.com/4xSDL6cD4i
— Attorney Carlos Moore (@Esquiremoore) May 26, 2023
Moore and the Murry family are asking the Indianola Police Department to release body camera footage of the incident.
“We cannot continue to tolerate a system that allows police to use lethal force with impunity,” Moore said in a statement. statement. “We must demand justice for this young boy and his family.”
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating the shooting.
The man who threatened Nakala Murry was taken into custody but released, according to CNN. She said the police released him because she did not press charges against him. “When was I going to have time to do this?” I was in the hospital with my son.
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Governments respect constitutions more. A new article published in The review of international organizations provides a database “that measures governments’ compliance with national constitutions”:
It combines information about de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto Implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories which we aggregate into an overall constitutional compliance indicator: property rights and rule of law, political rights, civil rights and basic human rights. The database covers 175 countries over the period 1900 to 2020 and can be used by researchers interested in studying the determinants or effects of (non-)respecting constitutions. Our survey of stylized facts of constitutional compliance reveals a long-term increase in compliance, which occurred primarily around the year 1990. The Americas saw the largest increase in compliance, but also Africa and Europe have improved, especially at the end of the Cold War. Democracies – especially those with parliamentary and mixed systems – show greater constitutional compliance than non-democracies, among which military dictatorships perform the worst. Constitutional design is also important: constitutions that allow for the removal of the head of state or government for violation of constitutional rules are more respected.
You can read the full article here.
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A Supreme Court decision yesterday in Sackett v EPA restricts federal government control over wetlands. The Court ruled that the Clean Water Act (CWA) applied only to “wetlands having a continuous surface connection with areas that are ‘United States waters’ in their own right” and “indistinguishable” from these waters, thereby overturning a lower court’s decision to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory authority over certain lands.
The case arose out of a dispute over property belonging to Michael And chantelle Sacett. The Sacketts wanted to fill in their land in Priest Lake, Idaho, and build a house there. But the EPA said this lot contained wetlands, so the backfill violated the CWA’s ban on dumping pollutants in “the waters of the United States”.
The EPA defined the Sacketts property as a wetland because it was near a ditch that fed a creek that fed an intrastate navigable lake. The Sacketts said their property does not contain “United States waters.”
A United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with the EPA. Now the Supreme Court has sided with the Sacketts. From Volokh’s plot:
According to Judge Alito, this means that wetlands that have a continuous connection to surface waters or that are directly adjacent to jurisdictional waters can be regulated as part of the waters of the United States, wetlands that are physically “separated ” of these waters may not be, even though they would satisfy a broader definition of “adjacent”. He writes:
In sum, we believe that the CWA applies only to wetlands that are “practically indistinguishable from United States waters”. Rapanos, 547 US, at 755 (majority opinion) (emphasis deleted). This requires the party claiming jurisdiction over adjacent wetlands to establish “first, that the adjacent area [body of water constitutes] . . . ‘water[s] of the United States” (i.e. a relatively permanent body of water connected to traditional interstate navigable waters); and second, that the wetland has a continuous surface connection with that water, making it difficult to determine where “water” ends and “wetland” begins. ID., to 742.
You can find the full decision here.
Raisonby Ronald Bailey wrote about the case yesterday, calling the Court’s decision a “common sense conclusion”. Reason TV covered the case in a video earlier this year:
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