New York City and Officer Found Liable in Fatal ’05 Shooting of a Teenager

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/nyregion/new-york-city-and-officer-found-liable-in-fatal-05-shooting-of-a-teenager.html

"In the hours after a Bronx teenager was shot and killed by a New York City police sergeant on an October night in 2005, accounts of a tragedy crystallized into an orderly tale.

The police said that Leonel Disla, 19, had waved a long kitchen knife at two police officers before he was shot. The doubts of newspaper reporters were assuaged. Prosecutors declined to press charges. In the nine years since, the public record has not wavered: Mr. Disla, who was born in the Dominican Republic, had invited that fatal shot."