“An autopsy report released this week cast further doubt on a police officer’s claim that a suspect committed suicide by shooting himself while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser, reportsKATC.
According to the first page of the official autopsy report released by the Iberia Parish Coroner’s Office, Victor White III, 22, died from a gunshot to the chest, not in his back as reported by the arresting officer.
White was arrested by State Police in March of this year on narcotics charges and, according to authorities, was handcuffed, with his hands behind his back, in the back seat of a police cruiser when he refused to exit the vehicle for processing. According to the police report, the arresting officer went to get help and when he returned he found White critically wounded from a gunshot wound to his back.
Police believe that White had somehow hidden a gun in the backseat of the cruiser and committed suicide by shooting himself. White died shortly after, with police stating there were no surveillance cameras in that area of the parking lot where the car was parked.” *
Ben Mankiewics (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77), Wes Clark Jr. and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/23/autopsy-report-shows-louisiana-police-lied-about-suspects-suicide-by-shooting-self-in-back/
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My home town is in the national spotlight!!!! Woohoo.
I truly hope that Victor’s family gets all the justice that’s possible. Rip Vic.
Police shoot center mass because unlike military troops most aren’t required to qualify as expert marksmen – Experts can hit targets 400 meters away. Also to graduate from Basic Training, military troops must traverse a special night obstacle course utilizing all that they have learned. The course is made more stressful with the use of artillery simulaters and overhead (tracer augmented) weapons fire. Bottom line, basic police training doesn’t teach the weapon skills or instill the personal risk factors required to consider non-lethal violence as a viable option.