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Sunday, November 22, 2009


Police chase a speeder, speeder gets out of car with a gun, police shoot speeder. Nothing really exceptional about that, so why is it when this sort of thing happens in a town of less than 7,000 people, there's always something fishy about it?
He said Brown was going at least 65 mph in a zone where speeds were marked at no more than 40 mph.

"(Brown) subsequently stopped and exited the vehicle and was armed with a handgun," Bowen said. "At some point during the confrontation the officers felt threatened."

Bowen wouldn't comment on what spurred Brown's actions, citing the ongoing investigation. He also wouldn't reveal if Brown pointed the handgun at officers.

The officers asked Brown to drop his weapon at least once, Bowen said.
"I refuse to comment on an open investigation" is the phrase that pays for most guilty politicians, so there's strike one. But it gets better:
Bowen said a patrol vehicle camera was running but didn't capture the episode. The audio recorders weren't working and didn't record the exchange, he said.
And there's strike two and three. You have dashboard mounted video cameras that somehow didn't catch the event, and audio recorders that, gosh darnit, just weren't working when a city employee killed a man?



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