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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 12:45 PM Dec 2015

The Deadliest county in America visa a vie cop shootings

Surprising - article below, but here is a snippet from the article that sounds all to familiar:

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"investigators working for Alderman’s family (Young man killed by cops ) made a discovery. There was, in fact, some surveillance footage of the incident. The police had quietly seized it from the Subway manager, who had been asked not to disclose what it showed. Police refuse to release the recording.

Sergeant Joe Grubbs, then the Bakersfield PD spokesman, said the shooting would be “highly scrutinised” and said: “We want to be scrutinised.” But within a month, Garrett and Wimbish had been cleared of wrongdoing by the department itself, which again investigated its own officers."


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/the-county-kern-county-deadliest-police-killings

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