APD fires officer who fatally shot unarmed teen.

Source: KVUE Austin

AUSTIN - The Austin Police Department officer who shot and killed an unarmed and naked teenager in early February was fired by Chief Art Acevedo Monday.

Officer Geoffrey Freeman’s termination comes just a few days after the autopsy report for 17-year-old David Joseph was released to the media. That report found that Joseph had two prescription drugs and marijuana in his system when he was shot and killed.

Specifically, Joseph had promethazine and benzodiazepine in his system along with marijuana.

Attorneys for Freeman previously suggested Joseph may have had superhuman strength from a drug like PCP and that Freeman feared for his life because Joseph charged at him. The autopsy report showed there was no PCP in Joseph's system.

Read more: http://www.kvue.com/news/local/apd-fires-officer-who-shot-killed-unarmed-teen/94473922

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This is my home town. And this kind of thing encapsulates everything I love about Austin.
The boy was shot, which was terrible. But the officer wasn't given paid vacation or paid to surf a desk. He went through an investigation, which found that his story and evidence from reality don't jive, and the cop was actually fired because his actions that day did not follow established policies.
The people that joke that every police shooting is going to bring about riots misses the point entirely. As angry as we are about cops shooting unarmed young men, we're most upset about the total lack of consequences for officers that lie about what happened.