Sureshbhai Patel News

Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala this week threw out the case against Alabama police officer Eric Parker.

In a jolt to a paralysed Indian grandfather's bid to seek justice, an American police officer who brutally assaulted him has been acquitted by a US court after two mistrials could not establish his guilt beyond doubt.

South Asian American organisations Thursday expressed their "outrage" at the second mistrial of a former police official who is charged with use of excessive force against an elderly Indian man resulting in him being partially paralysed.

The second trial of Eric Parker, the former police official who is charged with using excessive violence against 58-year-old Sureshbhai Patel early this year, that left him partially paralysed, has ended in a mistrial, District Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala said yesterday.

A new US federal jury will continue its deliberations on Tuesday in the case against an Alabama police officer charged with slamming an Indian grandfather to the ground while taking a walk last February.

"It's not only police lives that matter. All lives matter," a new jury was told as it weighed afresh evidence against an Alabama police officer charged with using excessive force on an Indian grandfather.

A former American police officer used an "extremely violent technique" against an Indian grandfather that left him partially paralysed early this year, a key police training official has told a US federal jury.

An Indian grandfather slammed to the ground by an Alabama police officer posed no threat to police, two fellow officers testified in the retrial of the cop charged with use of excessive force.

An Indian grandfather slammed to the ground by an Alabama police officer last February told him "no English" five times and said "India" three times, according to US prosecutors.

A U.S. judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of an Alabama policeman on trial for violating an Indian man`s rights by throwing him to the ground and injuring him badly during an encounter captured on video, local media reported.