A Death Revives Concerns About Police Brutality Six Years After National Reckoning
Two autopsies remain unreleased as mourners and civil rights leaders press for answers after the death of a 44-year-old man in police custody.
- On June 10, 44-year-old Lloyd Gilmore died in Sikeston police custody following a physical altercation during which officers shocked him with a Taser and placed him in hobble restraints.
- Lania Gilmore said her father, who struggled with mental health, sought a "safe space" at the police station; police reports claim he bit an officer's hand during the 30-minute struggle.
- Hundreds of mourners gathered Thursday at Cornerstone Baptist Church for the funeral, while longtime resident Louis Houston moved 30 minutes away, citing concerns about police treatment of Black residents affecting his mental health.
- Sikeston's NAACP branch president Mark Wiggins demanded officials "do their jobs correctly and leave Black people alone," citing decades of racial bias and the 2020 death of Denzel Taylor.
- A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report urged Congress to mandate tracking of all in-custody deaths, which Roger Mitchell notes disproportionately affect Black men amid an "anti-diversity environment.
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After a man dies in police custody, residents in a Missouri town demand answers - The Mexico Ledger
Cynthia Gilmore sits in the front row of her son’s funeral at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Sikeston, Missouri. Lloyd Gilmore died in police custody on June 10 (Cara Anthony/KFF Health News).SIKESTON — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanc…
After a man dies in police custody, residents in a Missouri town demand answers - Seward Independent
Cynthia Gilmore sits in the front row of her son’s funeral at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Sikeston, Missouri. Lloyd Gilmore died in police custody on June 10 (Cara Anthony/KFF Health News).SIKESTON — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanc…
Webster County Citizen
After a man dies in police custody, residents in a Missouri town demand answers
SIKESTON — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his…
KFF Health News
A Death Revives Concerns About Police Brutality Six Years After National Reckoning
SIKESTON, Mo. — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanctuary of Cornerstone Baptist Church and peeked inside. Other people looked away. On that rainy Friday afternoon, hundreds of such mourners gathered to honor the man who went to the polic…
A Death Revives Concerns About Police Brutality Six Years After National Reckoning - Health Care Today
SIKESTON, Mo. — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanctuary of Cornerstone Baptist Church and peeked inside. Other people looked away. On that rainy Friday afternoon, hundreds of such mourners gathered to honor the man who went to the polic…
After a man dies in police custody, residents in a Missouri town demand answers - Stateline Publications
Cynthia Gilmore sits in the front row of her son’s funeral at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Sikeston, Missouri. Lloyd Gilmore died in police custody on June 10 (Cara Anthony/KFF Health News).SIKESTON — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanc…
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