Ter activism1/20/2024 With the wide latitude of discretion given to law enforcement agents and very limited accountability mechanisms for their abuses, the Antiterrorism law’s provisions allowing detention up to 24 days without charges, warrantless arrests, and the suppression of freedom of expression and right to privacy threatens the work of Filipino indigenous people, small farmers, artisanal fishers, forest workers, and environmental activists operating in one of the global frontlines of the ecological and climate crisis. The ‘Terror Law’ is a draconian measure that would worsen the already atrocious human rights situation in the Philippines, previously tagged as the world's deadliest country for land and environmental defenders in 2019. The global environmental and climate justice movement stands together with Filipino environmental defenders and climate protectors in rejecting the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 recently signed by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The case is currently scheduled to go to a jury in October.Stand with Filipino Environmental Defenders against the Terror Law! The prosecutor’s office tells CHS the defendant had a concealed pistol license.Ĭooney remains jailed on $2 million bail. The police report included in the charges does not include an account of the events from Cooney and it is not clear if police were able to interview the suspect. Witness accounts describe a black driver and a white scooter driver shouting at each other and Cooney allegedly trying to kick the car as the vehicle was driven past the scooter during the altercation.Īccording to police, Lewis was in the neighborhood to pick up his nephew from his nearby apartment home and take him to a monster truck rally at Lumen Field to celebrate the child’s birthday.īut the court documents do not include any information explaining why Cooney felt it was necessary to open fire. Autopsy results show he had been shot in the back. Three bullets were accounted for including the one that killed Lewis. Police say five spent shell casings were found at the scene. Police say security video from the Walgreens at the corner of Broadway and Pine shows Cooney opening fire on the car even as it was turning to leave the area onto Broadway. Lewis was shot in the chest and died at Harborview later that night. The child was treated for his injuries and released from the hospital. The King County Prosecutor says Cooney was riding an electric scooter on E Pine just after 5 PM Saturday, April 1st when he became embroiled in an altercation and opened fire into the vehicle Lewis was driving, striking the man with a fatal shot and hitting the child in the calf. Loved ones and supporters have called for extra scrutiny in the case involving a white man accused of shooting and killing a black man in the middle of a busy early evening on Capitol Hill. Lewis was remembered during a vigil at Broadway and Pine as a dedicated community builder and entrepreneur in the Central District and Africatown communities. Lawyers haven’t revealed how they plan to defend their client but Patrick Cooney pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning in the Capitol HIll road rage shooting that killed Elijah Lewis and injured the 23-year-old’s young nephew earlier this month.Ĭooney, 35 and a Yesler Terrace area resident, is charged with second degree murder and first degree assault.
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