Man Fatally Shot After Police Chase in Shreveport

Shreveport, LA, Times ^ | 03-17-03 | Klass, Kym, and Prine, John Andrew

[Theodore R.]

Man fatally shot after police chase Kym Klass / The Times Posted on March 17, 2003 A Shreveport man was fatally shot by police late Saturday after a chase that began when he was observed driving erratically - two days after an unrelated police chase in which an officer was shot after a botched getaway attempt following an armored car robbery.

[Theodore R.]

Police mistook a cell phone for a gun. In Lubbock, TX, a few months ago, police mistook a toy gun for a real gun. In the Lubbock case, the police were exonerated for killing that suspect based on reasonable doubt that the toy gun could have been real. Would not that also apply here? Police believed in good faith that a cell phone being held like a gun was indeed a gun though it was not.