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  • FBI studies Garland police shooting - use of force against minorities cited as the reason

    01/25/2003 6:13:23 AM PST · by MeekOneGOP · 4 replies · 380+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | January 25, 2003 | The Dallas Morning News Staff
    FBI studies Garland police shooting 01/25/2003 From Staff Reports Garland Police Chief Larry Wilson asked the FBI on Friday to investigate his officers' fatal shooting of Jorge Cruz. The request comes in response to complaints about the department's use of force against minorities. On Wednesday, a Dallas County grand jury declined to indict the four officers who fired at Mr. Cruz on Aug. 31. The officers also have been cleared by a Garland department shooting review board. According to police reports, Mr. Cruz had threatened neighbors with a knife and attacked the officers after ignoring their commands in English...
  • (Canada) Officers cleared in dog's shooting

    01/24/2003 10:48:02 AM PST · by jodorowsky · 18 replies · 244+ views
    London Free Press (Canada) ^ | Friday, January 24, 2003 | KELLY PEDRO
    (Canada) Officers cleared in dog's shooting But Bear's owner was distressed to learn the German shepherd was shot four times. By KELLY PEDRO, Free Press Crime Reporter Nine officers involved in a botched drug raid in which they killed a family dog were cleared yesterday by an internal London police investigation of any wrongdoing. But Marcie Carroll, whose apartment was mistakenly raided by police, was upset to learn Bear, her six-year-old German shepherd, was shot four times by police, not once as they first told her. "She has had an opportunity to learn things . . . she has not...
  • Police find body of alleged N.J. shooter (Donut Watch)

    04/10/2002 8:23:28 AM PDT · by gridlock · 36 replies · 370+ views
    CNN.com ^ | 4/10/02 | CNN
    <p>Ocean County prosecutor Greg Sackowicz said officials have positively identified the body as Edward Lutes, a 15-year veteran of the Seaside Heights Police Department. He appeared to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a vehicle, Sackowicz said.</p> <p>According to Dover Township Police Chief Michael Mastronardy, the body was that of Edward Lutes, a 15-year veteran of the Seaside Heights police department.</p>