First as tragedy, then as farce...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/12/BA8U1GB8VB.DTLTwo Oakland police officers apparently mistook an electronic scale commonly used to weigh drugs for a handgun when they opened fire on the owner of a hairstylist shop Monday night, killing him, authorities said today....
The officers thought Jones was reaching for a gun, police said, but none was found. The scale Jones was holding was silver-colored and measured 3 by 5 inches, Thomason said.
But today, Jones' sister, Tonya Saheli, 34, of San Leandro, blasted police for killing her brother and for withholding that information. If anything, she said, news that police had killed Jones "because he had a scale and some weed" was damaging not to her family, but to the department.
"My brother is gone over the fact that he had weed," Saheli said. "And they said they didn't want to reveal what it was because it would be embarrassing to my family? Are you serious?":cry:
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