New York City and Officer Found Liable in Fatal ’05 Shooting of a Teenager

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/nyregion/new-york-city-and-officer-found-liable-in-fatal-05-shooting-of-a-teenager.html

"In the hours after a Bronx teenager was shot and killed by a New York City police sergeant on an October night in 2005, accounts of a tragedy crystallized into an orderly tale.

The police said that Leonel Disla, 19, had waved a long kitchen knife at two police officers before he was shot. The doubts of newspaper reporters were assuaged. Prosecutors declined to press charges. In the nine years since, the public record has not wavered: Mr. Disla, who was born in the Dominican Republic, had invited that fatal shot."

[Spazito]

1. Very interesting, some justice after 9 years...

I hope, if the criminal justice system continues to deny justice to the family of Michael Brown, the civil courts will give them redress but in a shorter time frame.

Thanks for posting this.

[seveneyes]

2. The flames of passion

Can spark to life in a moments notice. The past holds much tragedy in its wake of time gone by.

[SummerSnow]

3. Remember Eleanor Bumpurs?

[LiberalElite]

4. Yes I do. No justice there.