According to KCBS's 'Berkeley Police Say Officer Involved Shooting Appears Justified' at http://www.kcbs.com/pages/1669328.php?,
Berkeley police are releasing more details about this weekend's fatal officer involved shooting, and they say their preliminary investigation shows deadly force was justified.
Again, a very one-sided acceptance of Berkeley Police Sergeant Mary Kussmiss's statements here:
”So the possibility that this suspect could have stabbed the family members very quickly, was very, very evident,” said Berkeley Police Sergeant Mary Kussmiss. “From our preliminary investigation, this officer acted within our deadly force policy, and therefore, the shooting was justified.”
This is the Berkeley Police Department's own self-reporting on the members of their own force, so OF COURSE they would find the shooting completely justified from their "preliminary investigation"!!
You'd really need an independent review here.
Another updated news source on the shooting that blatantly contradicts Berkeley Police Sergeant Mary Kussmiss's above preliminary findings, is SFGate.com's 'Neighbors blame cops in shooting death' found at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/18/BAELV4EKI.DTL
Several angry neighbors of a woman who was fatally shot Saturday night by a police officer outside her Berkeley apartment said Sunday that they do not agree with the officer's assertion that he had fired to protect himself and the woman's two daughters.
Here from speaking with persons other than the only officer(s) present at the scene, is some rudimentary gist for a MUCH more balanced and neutral review :
Neighbors said Gay had done nothing to threaten the officer and questioned whether she was a danger to her daughters.
Chanell King, 55, who lives across the street and said she saw the shooting, said Gay was shot in the back as she made a move up her front steps toward her front door. King said she talked to Gay's daughters after the shooting, and that they were angry.
"She didn't make a move to go after him or anything. The only move she made was to go back into the house," King said. "This woman died for nothing."
Then further on
Neighbor Kim Johnson, 26, said three officers, including Cummings, interviewed Gay and then left. There was no evidence that Gay broke the windows, Kusmiss said.
Johnson said she soon allowed Gay, who had been locked out by her daughters, to use her phone to call police again. Johnson said it was around this time that she noticed Gay had a kitchen knife.
A single officer returned to the street, parked, walked up Gay's driveway with a flashlight and then ordered her to drop the knife, Johnson said. The officer then ordered Gay to put her hands against the stucco wall of her apartment, Johnson said.
Staggering, Gay complied but bumped her head on the wall and had to pull up her shorts after they fell down, Johnson said.
Johnson said she and another neighbor, 26-year-old Lisa Jones, then walked away because they thought the situation was under control. The knife, Johnson said, was on the ground nearby. But after a few seconds, they heard the gunfire and ran back to find Gay on the ground.
Seems from this that the only person who definitively saw Anita Gay holding the knife was that exact sole "single officer" just mentioned.
If this single officer's testimony is at least 51 percent true, then goodness people, a male member of the force [for five years no less!] has just GOT to know how to disable a fifty year-old woman on medication/alcohol and shakily holding a knife, and doing this by *average* physical strength and using a standard-issue officer's baton..... and WITHOUT the need to fire a gun!! >:-<
GO FIGURE THIS OUT ALREADY !!!!!!!
and What really went on with the officer's trigger-happiness!!!???
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