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Police shooting defendants reply to lawsuit
Published: 2023-09-06 17:07:12Tribal officers in Cherokee County shooting say they thought victim was armed . The police officers accused of shooting an unarmed Cherokee County man as he stood in the doorway of his home during the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 2022, hands above his...
Read MoreAbove the law: Sheriffs largely silent on sovereign group’s meeting
Published: 2023-09-05 19:55:06A controversial law enforcement association that holds a fringe interpretation of the Constitution and has ties to white nationalism, the sovereign citizen movement, election denial and COVID-19 conspiracy theories will host a meeting in Cherokee County ...
Read MorePolice shooting victim alleges attempted murder, seeks millions in damages
Published: 2023-06-20 20:31:08In an explosive federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Western North Carolina, the victim of a December 2022 police shooting in Cherokee County seeks millions of dollars in damages while laying out the sequence of alleged violations ...
Read MoreCouncil votes to remove police cameras from tribe’s public records law
Published: 2023-04-07 20:54:56D D uring its April 6 meeting, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council unanimously approved an ordinance change exempting police car and body cam videos from the tribe’s public records law. The vote comes on the heels of a Dec. 13, 2022, Ch...
Read MoreDA recuses herself from police shooting case
Published: 2023-03-29 18:07:35A This story has been updated from the original version published Wednesday, March 29, to include reporting from additional public records related to Sheriff Dustin Smith's whereabouts the night of the shooting and a proposed law in Cherokee that would e...
Read MoreCharges dropped against police shooting victim
Published: 2023-03-15 12:33:27Jason Harley Kloepfer left his home near Murphy on Dec. 13, 2022, with bullets in his body and criminal charges in the courthouse. Now, more than two months after an officer-involved shooting that made international headlines, misdemeanor charges accusin...
Read MoreCIPD officers shoot Murphy man in SWAT response
Published: 2023-02-08 13:25:13When officers shot Murphy resident Jason Harley Kloepfer, 41, while responding to a disturbance call Monday, Dec. 12, a press release from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said it happened because Kloepfer “engaged in a verbal altercation with of...
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