White Texas officer's immunity stands in black man's death

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 9:26 pm, Monday, January 8, 2018


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a lower court ruling that a white Texas police officer was immune from prosecution for the fatal shooting of a black man near a bank in 2013.

In a statement, the Travis County District Attorney's Office said justices declined Monday to take up the county's appeal in the case involving former Austin officer Charles Kleinert.

Kleinert was working with an FBI task force investigating bank robberies when he became suspicious of Larry Jackson Jr. and a chase ensued. Jackson was shot in the neck following a struggle.

Kleinert was indicted in 2014 on a manslaughter count, but a federal judge dismissed the charge under a more-than-100-year-old court ruling protecting federal officers from state prosecution.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/White-officer-s-immunity-stands-in-black-man-s-12482777.php

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[sakabatou]

1. There is no justice

[melm00se]

2. The key sentence

from this article is:

a federal judge dismissed the charge under a more-than-100-year-old court ruling protecting federal officers from state prosecution.

So that leaves it up to the feds to put him on trial.

[Seeking Serenity]

3. Sorry. I'm well familiar with this case, and this one is NOT

One of those cases. The Travis County DA's office never had a winnable case with this one. But it spent tens of thousands of taxpayers dollars to hire outside counsel to litigate over four years, even after loss after loss after loss in court, a case that should never have been prosecuted.