More Than 1,000 Attend Andy Lopez Protest Rally in Santa Rosa

[FreakinDJ]

More Than 1,000 Attend Andy Lopez Protest Rally in Santa Rosa

The Associated Press is reporting that more than 1,000 people marched at the rally this afternoon in Santa Rosa to protest the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez.

The protesters, including middle- and high-school-age students and members of the Occupy movement, assembled in downtown Santa Rosa before marching through streets with signs and hooded sweatshirts bearing photos of the boy.

"Andy Lopez did not have to die," they chanted during the nearly three-hour, mostly peaceful demonstration. No arrests were made.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/10/29/andy-lopez/

And here is something that took me completely by surprise buried in the article

"In the state of California we have a lot of laws that cover the protection of privacy of police officers and as a result of that, a lot of these complaints about police conduct, full reports are rarely made public," Gullixon said. "The question is ultimately what will come of that and how much will people know of what actually transpired."

So by that statement I guess the BEST way to protect a fellow officer in case like this is NOT to investigate. Because once an officer has Witness statements or Forensics Trajectory Reports he is bound by law to submit that as evidence. But if the question never is asked, the statement is never taken, or the Forensics work never performed it may be bad police work but its "No Harm / No Foul" - its not illegal. And no one will ever know

WOW

[gopiscrap]

1. good they need tokeep the heat on the fucking cops

[FreakinDJ]

2. Problem is the police will never release the reports

and no one knows did they actually do the job of investigating

[gopiscrap]

3. Bring in the DOJ civil rights division

[Ranchemp.]

5. FBI is opening their own separate investigation,

so it's very possible that the FBI will recommend that civil rights violation charges be filed.

[gopiscrap]

6. good

[Ranchemp.]

7. The more I read about this police officer,

the more the hair on the back of my neck is rising.
Still not ready to make a judgement call, but I'm starting to lean towards an excessive use of force not equivalent to the nature of the complaint.

[gopiscrap]

8. all cops are like that nowadays

fucking steroid driven power hungry arrogant shit heads!

[Ranchemp.]

9. I'm not, and neither are any of my team members.

[Ranchemp.]

4. FBI is investigating,

and their report will be released along with possible recommendations for the DOJ civil rights division to file charges.