police brutality http://michiganradio.org en Former Detroit police officer, convicted in fatal beating, dies http://michiganradio.org/post/former-detroit-police-officer-convicted-fatal-beating-dies <p>DETROIT (AP) - A former Detroit police officer convicted in the 1992 fatal beating of a man near a drug house has died. Larry Nevers was 72.<br><br>The Macomb County medical examiner's office says Nevers died Sunday at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. No details about the cause were immediately available, although Nevers had emphysema.<br> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:57:34 +0000 The Associated Press 11085 at http://michiganradio.org Former Detroit police officer, convicted in fatal beating, dies