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According to police, a Greenfield officer stopped a vehicle near South 35th Street and West Oklahoma Avenue at 1:36 a.m. near the city's border with Milwaukee.
The 31-year-old male driver — its lone occupant — stopped the car initially, then drove off. Officers followed in pursuit.
The chase ended when the man crashed near South 27th Street and West Becher Street, about 2 miles away in Milwaukee.
The man exited the vehicle and started shooting at officers, striking a 36-year-old officer multiple times.
Two other officers who were involved in the pursuit returned fire and killed the man.
Footage shows the suspect crashed into another vehicle at the end of the pursuit. The station also obtained emergency radio broadcast audio that states the officer was shot in the chest.
The officer who was shot also made the initial traffic stop, according to Greenfield police. Investigators say they do not know why the officer first pulled over the man.
"It is unknown at this time. The officer who performed the stop is unconscious," Assistant Chief Ray Radakovich said in an email Sunday to the Journal Sentinel regarding the reason for the initial stop.
The officer would have radioed to dispatch that he was making a stop but would not have said why, Radakovich said.
It's also unclear why the officer pulled over the man about a half-mile outside city of Greenfield borders, but Radakovich said it is "very routine" to stop drivers outside city limits. Any law enforcement officer with a Milwaukee County agency has jurisdiction to make stops throughout the county.
Until investigators hear from the officer himself, Radakovich said he could only speculate as to why the stop occurred in the city of Milwaukee.
Greenfield police have not released the names of the officers or the suspect.
The officer who was shot had three years of experience, police said. The two officers who shot at the suspect were described as a 32-year-old with less than two years of experience and a 22-year-old with three years of experience.
All body camera and squad car footage from the incident was turned over to the Milwaukee Police Department; the Milwaukee Area Investigative Team will be investigating the shooting.
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Traffic stop leads to Officer involved shooting. Suspect gets flanked and officer fired shots over the driver into the shooter. Officer then maneuvers around again and finishes the job.
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The video, captured by a police car dashboard camera, appears to show six police officers gunning down Milton Hall, 49, in broad daylight, during a tense confrontation in a Saginaw parking lot. Hall was armed with a penknife and appears to be standing at least several yards from the nearest officer. Officers fired at him more than 45 times.
The American Civil Liberties Union obtained the video from lawyers for Hall’s family. It provides a closer and more detailed view of the killing than the handheld civilian video that was shown on CNN shortly after the shooting
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MILWAUKEE — A routine welfare check in Milwaukee ended in injury early Monday morning, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Police said at around 12:19 a.m., they responded to a call for a welfare check at the 2300 block of North Booth Street, which is near Kilbourne Reservoir Park in Riverwest.
Upon arrival, the 24-year-old officer from the Milwaukee Police Department encountered a 31-year-old Milwaukee man who let the officer into the residence.
Once inside, the officer saw the dead body of a 75-year-old Milwaukee woman. After finding the body, police considered the 31-year-old man a suspect and attempted to detain him.
However, the suspect resisted, arming himself with a pole and a weight. The officer then gave multiple commands for the suspect to drop his weapon, but the suspect refused.
At that point, the officer discharged his firearm, striking the man.
Both the officer and the man were taken to local hospitals for non-fatal injuries. The 24-year-old officer will be placed on administrative duty, as is protocol for the Milwaukee Police Department.
The cause of the 75-year-old woman’s death is still under investigation, but police say there were no visible signs of trauma on the body.
Background, Santa Cruz massacre (including Max Stahl's footage), few dozens torture photos, two documentaries + links
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This post will be a bit chaotic, both due to the time span of the events and the problems with availability of the content. Tl;dr. The Indonesian occupation, lasting from 1975 to 1999, weren't the first period of a mass violence in East Timor - but this one received the most attention. During the first few years, estimated deaths numbers were the highest - both from the illness or hunger and direct killings. The overall death toll is vague, the middle range being 20-25% of 1975 population (~700,000). A classification of the war crimes during that 24 years is also vague. Even though they are commonly referred to as a genocide, they can't be prosecuted as such under the international law. Leaving aside boring aspects, like law and statistics, the core of what I wanted to show you is the torture and other abuse of the civilians. Mostly, it's from the 1990s, right at the time to start circulating in the early internet, and then - already in another century - on a first gore websites. That was really limited comparing to available materials.
Sections go as follows:
An introduction with a few photo sets. This part includes both the background on the country's history and different crimes against civilians. The photo sets come from a brochure from at least 1997, documenting various human rights violations.
Santa Cruz massacre. A tl;dr, map, related photos (with link to more) and around 50 mins long video by the Max Stahl, who was there just to film the demonstration on 12th of November 1991 (cut in two - for more than 30 mins it's just a protest).
More torture photos. Two sets are the 'basic' ones: one that was shown in 1996 on the UN meeting (video from this one included!), and another showing the abuse and sexual humiliation of women by Indonesian troops in late 1996 (surfacing in 1997). Archives or lack of them make obtaining any particular set problematic. But overally, this section will include 40+ photos.
Documentaries.
Sources.
⠀AN INTRODUCTION WITH A FEW PHOTO SETS :marseyexcited:
The most important question: where the fuck is East Timor? Here. Its territory size is nearly as this of Connecticut (difference of a few %).
The longer material on the history of East Timor is in the sources (to read) or Documentaries section (to watch and listen).
What happened during the Indonesian occupation is formally:
non-genocidal breaches of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other gross violations of human rights. [...] The conflict in East Timor most accurately qualifies as genocide against a ‘political group’, or alternatively as ‘cultural genocide’, yet neither of these concepts are explicitly recognised in international law
⠀SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE :marseypopcorntime:
On 28th of October 1991, young Sebastiao (Gomes) Rangel, was killed by the Indonesian troops after they've entered the parish church of Motael, Dili, where he was hiding with around 20 other political activists. His grave was a focal point of the demonstration, taking place on 12th of November 1991. It gathered around 3,000 people, mostly students or other youth (the estimates vary from 800 to either 5,000 or 6,000). Photos from his funeral:
The demonstration itself was reportedly documented by a few foreign journalists. The easiest to find are the photos of Steve Cox and Max Stahl. Here some collage without the authors mentioned:
Stahl also got a footage, which will be included below. But first, some reading on how it looked 'officially':
The 12 November 1991 massacre, as well as the vast disparity between official Indonesian and eyewitness accounts, brought sharp criticism both domestically and internationally. Several governments threatened to suspend foreign aid unless a credible investigation into the events were undertaken and those responsible punished.
In response to this mounting international pressure, the Indonesian Government, [...], on 18 November 1991, announced the formation of a seven-member National Commission of Inquiry. On 26 December 1991, the National Commission of Inquiry issued a nine-page Advance Report of its investigation. The Commission stated that it had "strong reasons and grounds" to arrive at the following conclusions [...]
You may check the full conclusions here on the pages 16 to 17th. Shortly saying, that was an 'incident', 'essentially a tragedy to be deeply regretted', and a culmination of the previous demonstrations and incidents. Victims were provoking, riot-control procedures were insufficient, and after the 'tense atmosphere reached the boiling point', security personel felt threatened, shooting excessively without command. Apart from the victim blaming, authorities fucked up the investigation (from collecting the evidence to identifying the victims). Eyewitnesses interviewed by the ICJ (report linked above) claimed that there was no warning and no provocation leading to shooting. The level of 'discipline and methodical manner' in which the troops were, according to the witnessess, proceeding suggests that it was premeditated and controlled operation.
Map showing the demonstration route and when the massacre did take place:
How it looked at the cemetery. The surnames mentioned are the important eywitnesses, whose testimonies are available online, too. Amy Goodman - an American broadcast journalist; Allan Nairn - an American investigative journalists (both beaten during the protest); Russel Anderson and Bob Muntz were both Australians.
Max Stahl was one of the very few journalists who didn't flee from East Timor. He obtained a few thousands of hours of footage. The most recognizable one is a Santa Cruz massacre. Stahl was filming a pro-democracy demonstration, and that's more than a half of the video. The video lasts aroud 50 minutes. After 33;20, the footage skips to the view on a street with people running away, with sirens and shots in the background. This is where I cut the video.
Second part, around 16 mins.
From a few noticeable moments: people tripping over, probably over the corpses; a soldier showing Stahl to put the camera down; a view on a wounded man you've already seen in the stillshots included in 1st section; a wounded man is taken from the street. Stahl knew he will be arrested, so after the massacre, he put the freshly recorded tape in a grave. Somehow it was smuggled out of Timor. According to the witnesses, some of the survivors were later finished, either hit by e.g. stone or by some pills. The number of casualties is vague; initially, it started around 50 victims. Currently, it's either given as 'more than 250 victims', or more precizely (especially the 271, which is mentioned e.g. by ETAN).
If you'd like to see more, here is a free archive with around 100 photographs - both the demonstration, related events and the aftermath. The same website's archives also contain another human rights violations photos, including the more typical gore.
⠀TORTURE PHOTOS :marseytroublemaker:
Short, but necessary comment: the videos relating to torture or another abuse exist, although are not accessible. The only specified collection with the videos mention that I've found was this of Andrew McNaughtan’s (1954 - 2003, political and social activist). His videos from 1994-1998 period include rare content, some unique. Raw footage of particular importance includes, quoting, 'smuggled Indonesian recordings of post-demonstration detentions and interrogations'. At least around 2006, when the guide to his collections was released online, Mitchell Library in Sydney was housing the collections for public access. In the guide, one of the listed items is McNaughtan’s letter exchange with Channel 7 (Today / Tonight program hosts, specifically) about the torture videos. All the other items on that list relate to photos, and videos in National Film and Sound Archive have at last interviews or testimonies. The website originally posting the torture photos also mentions one video smuggled. It's not connected to the above-mentioned collections.
This means that the existence of East Timor torture videos (from the 1990s) is confirmed, but we would never get them :marseysob: For these interested, short note by Amnesty International from 1983. Tl;dr: it confirms indirectly that the Indonesian troops were allowed to torture the civilians. It's advised, though, that they either shouldn't record the abuse or keep these depictions away from 'irresponsible members of society'. LINK
Example of an earlier torture photos, coming from the archive linked in the previous section.
Portrait of a young man bound and tortured by the Indonesian military. The paper that can be seen between the hands reads, in the Indonesian language: "Minta Tolon Sama Xanana mu" (Ask your Xanana for help), in Timor-Leste. March 1992.
⠀PHOTOS RELEASED IN 1996 - INDONESIAN TROOPS ABUSING MEN AFTER PROTESTS
These images were obtained from elements in the Indonesian military in East Timor. They depict the torture, interrogation and murder of youths in December 1996 after a rally welcoming Bishop Belo back to Dili after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.
The photographs show East Timorese youths being tortured and killed by members of the Indonesian military, and were released by Mr. Jose Ramos-Horta recently in Geneva. Mr Ramos-Horta, joint winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, presented a video of the photographs to United Nations experts including the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye.
A video from the mentioned UN meeting:
Mr. Ramos-Horta said he believed the pictures were authentic while Indonesia dismissed them as a "lot of nonsense" and said they were false. Mr. Ghaffer Fadyl, a representative of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, said "we doubt their authenticity." He also said, "this is conformity with Horta's propaganda -- using lies and distortion to discredit Indonesia" (Reuters, 7 April 1997).
The video and photographs, which were recently smuggled out of East Timor, were also sent to the East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC), which is undertaking an investigation. The ETHRC believes the photographs are authentic, however, arrangements are being made for experts to view them. All findings of the ETHRC investigation will be reported to the United Nations, in particular the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
For some reason, these photos are now everywhere but on human rights activists' websites. They're not included in http://archive.org version of the site they were initially posted on. Text was saved, though, and the descriptions are detailed enough to figure out at least a half of that set. It was this site: link As the new version doesn't even have an article about this, and TinEye - which normally have picture search results for even offline sites, only existing in archive - shows no results there for some photos, and more reasons..., I think they were intentionally not posted again.
So, let's go :marseysurejan:
VICTIMS 1, 2 and 3: Six photos of victim 1, wearing a black t-shirt and trousers, who appears to have died from torture. One photo in the series shows victim 1 and two other victims (all presumably dead) covered in blood-stained pro-independence banners. Another photo shows victim 1 in the bottom of a grave.
(two lacking for now)
VICTIM 4: Three photos of victim 4, wearing red shorts and blindfold, being tortured by a member of the Indonesian army. The victim is being subjected to electric shock and being beaten with a chair and a bamboo pole.
VICTIM 6: Four photos of victim 6, wearing white underpants and blindfold, being interrogated and tortured by a member of the Indonesian army. The photos show the victim being strangled with a chain while standing and also while kneeling on the floor with the soldier’s foot on his back. One photo shows the victim being put into a shallow grave.
The first photo is matching the description, and the second one is reportedly the same guy.
(2 or 3 lacking for now?)
VICTIM 7: Two photos of victim 7, wearing blue jeans, no shirt and blindfold, tied to an iron bed frame by the neck and wrists. The victim is having a thick bamboo pole inserted into his mouth, presumably causing strangulation.
(1 lacking for now)
VICTIM 8: Four photos of victim 8, wearing blue jeans, no shirt and blindfold, being tortured by a member of the Indonesian army. The victim is shown with a chain around his neck and his head on a desk and being strangled on the floor with the chain pulled tight across his face. The victim is also shown being burnt with a cigarette and the upper body shows signs of numerous cigarette burns.
I couldn't find the 4th one in color. In the report used as a source for the 1st section photos, this black and white photo was described as showing the same man:
VICTIM 9: Three photos of victim 9, wearing blue/green shorts and blindfold, being tortured by a member of the Indonesian army. The victim’s wrists and neck are tied together with a chain and while a soldier drives a large bamboo pole into his stomach and throat. The victim is also shown having his foot squashed with the leg of a chair with electric cables are attached to his genitals at the same time.
(1 or 2 lacking for now?)
The report use as a source claimed that's the same guy in a second picture:
VICTIM 10: Four photos of victim 10, wearing long white shorts and blindfold, being tortured by members of the Indonesian army. The victim’s wrists and neck are tied together with a chain which hangs from the wall while he is being subjected to electric shock. The victim is also shown having an iron pole forced down his throat by a soldier. Two of the photos show the victim outdoors, (presumably at the grave site), being hung from a tree while being strangled with a chain, then tied to the tree and apparently having dirt shoveled into his mouth. It appears that victim 9 is also tied to the tree.
(1 lacking for now)
VICTIM 11, 12 and 13: These three victims, covered in mud, are shown being dumped into a shallow grave by members of the Indonesian army. One wears blue jeans, one wears underpants and one is naked
I have no idea under which point should some of these photos go. Some are hard to attribute to any of the people mentioned. Others definitely don't match any of the above-mentioned, e.g. the guy in the long white trousers. I assume that either some of them were forced to strip to the underwear, and may be mentioned before, or it's simply an additional photos set (as more were smuggled out than these matching the above descriptions).
Here the ones showing the bodies:
⠀PHOTOS RELEASED IN 1997 - INDONESIAN TROOPS TORTURING AND HUMILIATING WOMEN
A few photos from this set were widely circulating on early 2000s gore sites (including Ogrish and Nausea). Some other incorrectly lumped them with the victims of 1997 or 1998 protests. These women were reportedly tortured in December 1996, after a rally welcoming Bishop Belo back to Dili (same as for the guys above). It was concluded from the mocking statement written on one of the victims. The original set included 40 photos. Some sources stated it's 100, and maybe this is the explanation (apart from lumping them incorrectly with another events):
The 40 pictures show a series of violations that probably involve 5 different women in total. They have been picked from about two hundred pictures smuggled from East Timor in late 1997.
These easily accessible photos now are limited to around or slightly more than a dozen, of which some seem odd and probably aren't the right ones. I found the limited number of photos very ironic, as half-naked or completely stripped women being tortured sound like the type of content being most likely to survive online. I couldn't check them all, as I was randomly getting connection timeout error while downloading the archived .zip file. But this seems to be the answer why it's not shared, even though coming from the activists
PICTURES 25 to 29 : show the violation in detention of a young girl - probably a school girl by her uniform, with white top and blue skirt .
PICTURES 30 to 37 : show two girls being sexually violated whilst tied to a tree at night. Again the blue dress of one of the girls (seen in picture 35) would indicate she is a school girl. The photos do not indicate the outcome of this violation although the associated `report' supplied from inside East Timor indicates they were killed ( this report follows).
THE LAST PICTURES 38 to 40 : show one girl (presumably also a schoolgirl because of her blue dress) tied up and apparently stabbed in the back with a sharp implement.
The mentions of some of the victims being probably underage aren't common. I didn't know about it until encountering one archived website, the rest was just writing more generally about 'women'. I'm not sure if the above-mentioned photos were actually ever released, of course in some censored version. Here are the 'safe' ones (I couldn't find all 24):
The first 24 images involve the violation, torture and apparent murder of one woman. Her name is not known by us but from the sign that the soldiers hold over her body in photos number 21 and 22 that says " Hidup hadia Nobel" ( Bahasa Indonesian for "long live the Nobel award" ) that the probable date of this violation is December last year.
These ones were posted on OG Ogrish:
The rest:
⠀DOCUMENTARIES
A video from Democracy Now! Description:
A documentary produced by Amy Goodman and journalist Allan Nairn on the Santa Cruz massacre and the history of Indonesian and US involvement in the Southeast Asian nation.
This is the 2002 video version of the 1991 radio documentary by Amy Goodman.
It contains both video clips and photos, some showing torture or more classic gore. There's no dates given (it's illustrative, not 100% matching the narration), you may have seen some already in the above pictures with descriptions. Lasts around 20 minutes.
This one lasts above 40 minutes.
This documentary examines the nature of the Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Reviews the personal and collective suffering experienced by the people of East Timor, and considers Australia's inaction before the litany of human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian regime, in particular, the Dili Massacre of 1991. Released 10 January 1992.
⠀SOURCES 
https://timorarchive.ca/human-rights-violations-in-east-timor Photos with captions.
https://timorarchive.ca/russell-anderson-photographs 28th of October 1991.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-28/filmmaker-max-stahl-dies-after-long-illness/100576438
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa21/024/1991/en/ East Timor: After the massacre (from 21th of November 1991)
https://timorarchives.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/mcnaughtan-videos-chart-work/
https://hrdag.org/content/timorleste/Benetech-Report-to-CAVR.pdf Statistics.
https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1680222/Saul.pdf On whether this was genocide or not.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991013033519/http://easttimor.com/html/gal_women.html ...and another subsection on this website (tortured men). Contains some aftermath images not posted above.
https://www.sfu.ca/~rdr/silence.html Reading for these interested both in the history and statistics.
https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/8452/1/IR-07-003.pdf Short on history / demographics (not used as a source, linked for these interested).
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That video shows both men coming under fire and seeking refuge in a garage as a neighbor with a semiautomatic pistol keeps shooting toward Young as cover, a “heroic” act that allowed the deputies to seek medical treatment out of the line of fire, according to previous Herald reporting.
Young is facing several felony charges stemming from the incident, including two counts of attempted first-degree murder. His trial is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 14, according to online court records.
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It has been a week now and still no family has come forward. Possibly homeless? Or maybe he traveled states.
“ AVONDALE, Ariz. - Police have released new information in connection to a shooting in Avondale that left a shoplifting suspect dead.
Avondale Police say they responded to reports of shoplifting at a Family Dollar store near Dysart Road and Riley Drive at about 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 21.
The suspect, described as a black man who was wearing green and riding a purple bicycle, had allegedly shoplifted from the same store earlier in the day.
An officer later found a person matching the suspect's description at the Agua Fria River bottom near 10th Street and Riley Drive.
"As the officer approached the male, the male was observed to have a possible sharp tool on his waistband which later turned out to be one of three knives in the male’s possession," police said.
Police shooting in Avondale leaves suspect dead, officials say
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Police shooting in Avondale leaves suspect dead, officials say
A suspect was declared dead at the scene, according to Avondale Police officials, following a shooting that involved a police officer.
As the officer began placing the man in handcuffs, police say the suspect resisted, and a struggle ensued between him and the officer. The suspect reportedly choked the officer, who was on the ground, and tried to reach for the officer's holstered gun.
Police say the officer got back up to his feet, and the suspect again tried choking him. The officer then pulled out his gun and shot the suspect.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officer suffered injuries to his neck and hand. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The officer, a six-year veteran of Avondale Police, was placed on administrative leave. Peoria Police conducted a criminal investigation of the shooting and submitted its findings to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review.”
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[full video: action begins 5:11 and 8:28 for split-screen and single-cam, respectively]
[another angle, with helpful commentary]
On May 11, 2023, Brandon Lemagne, 38, was approached by a Fairfax County police officer at a Citgo gas station on Richmond Highway (Route 1) when the plates on his U-Haul truck were identified as stolen. The gas station is located at 6241 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22303. He reached for the officer's firearm, attempting to grab it out of the officer's holster. They struggled onto the driver's seat of the officer's police cruiser, as the officer radioed "Signal One," indicating "officer in trouble." As backup approached the scene, the cruiser began to move, crashing into the nearby McDonald's building. The officers continued to struggle as backup arrived, at which point the second officer shot 18 rounds into the driver's side window, toward both Lemagne and the first officer. The third officer then approaches the vehicle, pulls Lemagne out of the car, and fires three rounds point-blank into Lemagne's head.
It is unclear whether Lemagne died when shot by the third officer, or whether he died after taking fire from the second officer who fired into the vehicle. Nevertheless, it is clear from the video that Lemagne did not have the officer's firearm in his hand when he was pulled out of the vehicle. It is also unclear whether the first officer was shot at any point, although if he were, it could not have been with his own firearm, since it was still in his holster when the other officers pulled him out to render aid.
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“ Police said Brandon Lemagne, 38, of Newport News, was driving a stolen U-Haul when an officer stopped him in a gas station parking lot the afternoon of May 3 on Richmond Highway. A struggle ensued between Lemagne and the officer that resulted in two additional responding officers opening fire and killing Lemagne.
Security camera footage from the Citgo station in the 6200 block of Richmond Highway shows an officer approach the U-Haul as the driver, Lemagne, walked toward the inside of the gas station.
The footage shows the officer, who officials said has been on the force for three years, informing Lemagne that he was being detained. Moments later, both the security camera and body camera footage show, Lemagne suddenly reach for the officer’s gun.
Both the security camera and the first officer’s body camera show that a struggle for the gun ensued, which started outside of the police SUV and continued inside the SUV.
During the struggle for the firearm, the officer can be heard saying “Get off my gun” multiple times. The officer can be heard calling for backup, alerting other officers that Lemagne grabbed his gun.
“This is egregious, this is not the norm. Our police officer is lucky to be alive,” said Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis, calling the incident a “once-in-a-generation” event for a police department.
The security footage shows that once the two men are inside the police SUV, it begins to go in reverse toward an adjacent McDonald’s. Davis said it was “absolutely” Lemagne who put the vehicle in reverse, and who “stomped on the gas pedal.”
His intent was to kill that police officer,” Davis said of Lemagne.
All three officers involved are still on restrictive duty status pending the outcome of the investigations.“
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