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    Surrounded by supporters on Wednesday, Alecia Nelson stood quietly in tears just before she walked inside the Richmond Police Department’s 3rd Precinct and filed a formal complaint against an officer who confronted her Monday at a Family Dollar store in the city’s South Side. Joshua Carter, who recorded video of Monday’s tumultuous encounter between Nelson and the officer, Graham Lang, also filed a complaint against Lang with Richmond internal affairs investigators on Wednesday, alleging assault and excessive force. But when Carter tried later to swear out a criminal assault charge against Lang, he said a magistrate declined to issue the ...


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    Protesters demand Family Dollar take responsibility for Alecia Nelson’s arrest

    Despite freezing temperatures and light snowfall Saturday, protesters gathered outside a Family Dollar store in Richmond to protest the corporation’s role in the violent arrest of Alecia Nelson. A video of a Richmond Police officer kneeling on Nelson's back while she screamed “I can’t breathe” went viral last week. The incident happened at the Family Dollar location on Westover Hills Boulevard on March 7, and according to witnesses in the video, began when the supervisor of the store called the police on Nelson for allegedly shoplifting. The video shows the officer, identified by The Roanoke Times as Graham Lang, violently ...


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    Judge dismisses felony charge against woman arrested at Family Dollar

    Three months after Alecia Nelson was injured in an encounter with a police officer, a Richmond General District judge on Friday dismissed the felony charge that police lodged against her for allegedly assaulting the officer who arrested her. While the prosecutor asked to withdraw the charge, the judge instead granted the defense’s motion to dismiss the case. In an interview afterward, Nelson said she felt relief. “At first, I was humiliated and upset. It was like, ‘Why did this happen to me?’ But it’s just made me stronger,” she said. Nelson stopped by the Family Dollar on Westover Hills Boulevard ...


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