Posted on 12/29/2014 7:59:40 PM PST by hole_n_one
The Times asked four use-of-force experts to review the autopsy of Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man killed by police in South Los Angeles in August.
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Merrick Bobb, who for years was the civilian overseer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, said he didn’t see anything “particularly remarkable” in the autopsy report that would color his opinion of the officers’ actions.
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Ed Obayashi, an Inyo County sheriff’s deputy who is also an attorney and a legal expert on police use of force, said he found nothing in the autopsy to contradict the police version of events.
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Sid Heal, who was the commanding officer of the SWAT unit at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department before retiring in 2008,......“There’s nothing in there that’s inconsistent with what I’ve read in the press,” Heal said.
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Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina........Absent all that information, he said, it’s premature to try to determine whether or not a shooting is justified.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Ezell Ford shooting: Autopsy report shows man shot 3 times by LAPD
A 25-year-old black man killed in a confrontation with Los Angeles police this summer was shot three times, including in his right side, right arm and his back, an autopsy report released Monday shows.
The report on the autopsy of Ezell Ford by the Los Angeles County coroner's office corroborated the accounts of the two police officers who shot him, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday. But he stressed that the investigation, which is being handled jointly by the LAPD and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, was ongoing.
"This investigation is far from over," said Beck, who added that "there is nothing in the coroner's report that is inconsistent with officers' versions of events."
LAPD said the refusal to release was done in an effort to not influence or contaminate any eye witness accounts.
No one has yet to come forward as an eye witness, at least that has been publicly acknowledged.
LAPD has barricades set up for potential protestors after the release of this report, but apparently, the only ones to show up were the same ones that went to the so called Kwanza parade in LA earlier in the week
Need my glasses updated. Thought that read Edsel Ford.
We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong. Everything by the book. Case closed.
Did you read the story? These were 4 experts hired by the LA Times. Like the people in the riots, you assume the cops were in the wrong no matter the evidence.
Looking at the names of the officers involved, was one black and the other Hispanic? If so, that just won’t do for the looters and perpetual victims, although I suppose they have expanded their greivance to include law and order and all its representatives.
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