A former local police chief is now the highest-ranking official to be charged for the deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush in Seoul. The court called the disaster "man-made."
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00:00A former Seoul police chief has been sentenced to prison for negligence over the deadly 2022
00:06Halloween crowd crush.
00:08Nearly 160 people died in the popular Itaewon nightlife district.
00:13A Seoul court called the disaster man-made and gave Lee Im-jae three years behind bars.
00:19The court said that police failed to prepare sufficient crowd control measures that night
00:24and didn't respond to early calls for help.
00:26Emergency logs show that multiple reports had been made about overcrowding four hours
00:32before the deadly crush began.
00:34Two other former police officers were also convicted.