The Amsterdam police have reached a settlement with the parents of Sammy Baker, a German fitness influencer who was shot dead in the summer of 2020, after a struggle with agents. That made action group Control Alt Delete, an organization that protests against police violence, on Tuesday known during a commemoration in Leeuwarden for people who died in or after an arrest by the police or Marechaussee, according to de Volkskrant. The police confirm to NRC that is suitable.
Police and the over stated at the time that the agents could not do anything else. Baker, who traveled to Amsterdam as a tourist to celebrate his 23rd birthday, got through cannabis use in a psychosis. The police found him with a knife that he also pressed his throat.
According to the judiciary, the agents initially waited for a police negotiator. But when Sammy walked towards the officers with the knife, they intervened. Sammy is said to have made waving and stinging movements in the direction of the upper bodies and the neck of three agents, on which two agents each fired two bullets. According to the OM there was no time for a warning shot.
Sammy’s parents could not accept the death of their son. They think that his death could perhaps be prevented if he was treated differently in the first instance. For that reason, they tightened a civil lawsuit against the police, followed by a month -lasting mediation process.
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