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San Francisco officer charged in teenager's death
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San Francisco officer charged in teenager's death
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Police Chief Fred Lau filed charges this week with the Police Commission against two officers involved in the 1998 shooting death of 17-year-old Sheila Detoy.
Sergeant Gregory Breslin was being charged with firing his weapon without justification. Another, James Zerga, has been charged with misrepresenting the truth.
The charges come more than a year after the Office of Citizen complaints first asked that the officers be disciplined. The office expects Lau to file charges against two more officers connected with the shooting.
Detoy was a passenger in a car with two other men at a Lake Merced apartment complex May 13, 1998. One of the men was sought on a felony drug warrant, but the car pulled away Breslin and other plainclothes officers closed in to make the arrest. When the vehicle did not stop officers opened fire and a bullet from Breslin's gun struck Detoy in the head.
The police department has held that Breslin fired because the car was going to run over him. Breslin and Zerga could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
In 2000, the Detoy family settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $505,000 after witnesses contradicted Breslin's story that he was in danger.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/articles/0702/07/new13.asp
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Police Chief Fred Lau filed charges this week with the Police Commission against two officers involved in the 1998 shooting death of 17-year-old Sheila Detoy.
Sergeant Gregory Breslin was being charged with firing his weapon without justification. Another, James Zerga, has been charged with misrepresenting the truth.
The charges come more than a year after the Office of Citizen complaints first asked that the officers be disciplined. The office expects Lau to file charges against two more officers connected with the shooting.
Detoy was a passenger in a car with two other men at a Lake Merced apartment complex May 13, 1998. One of the men was sought on a felony drug warrant, but the car pulled away Breslin and other plainclothes officers closed in to make the arrest. When the vehicle did not stop officers opened fire and a bullet from Breslin's gun struck Detoy in the head.
The police department has held that Breslin fired because the car was going to run over him. Breslin and Zerga could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
In 2000, the Detoy family settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $505,000 after witnesses contradicted Breslin's story that he was in danger.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/articles/0702/07/new13.asp
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878