www.democracynow.org - A grand jury met Wednesday to consider whether charges should be filed in the police shooting of retired Marine Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., who was killed when police -- responding to a false alarm from his LifeAid medical-alert pendant -- burst into his White Plains apartment, tasered him and shot him dead on November 19, 2011. Lawyers for Chamberlain's family say newly revealed documents show the White Plains police violated their own taser policy by using the weapon on an elderly person and failing to give verbal warnings. On what would have been Chamberlain's 69th birthday, we're joined by two attorneys for his family, Mayo Bartlett and Abdulwali Muhammad.

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Published on Apr 12, 2012 by democracynow