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WhoIsNumberNone

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Thu Jan 1, 2015, 01:11 PM Jan 2015

TYT: Ezell Ford Autopsy Suggests The Cops’ Story Might Not Add Up



"The official autopsy report for Ezell Ford, an unarmed, mentally ill black man shot to death by Los Angeles police in August, was released by the county coroner's office Monday after the Los Angeles Police Department lifted an investigative hold that had blocked the report from public view for over four months.

The coroner's investigation ruled Ford's death a homicide by multiple gunshot wounds.

Ford, 25, was killed by LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas, both on gang enforcement detail, shortly after 8 p.m. on Aug. 11 in the Florence neighborhood of South LA. The report provides the first detailed account from authorities of his injuries.

According to the autopsy report, Ford was shot three times, resulting in two fatal wounds and one nonfatal."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/29/ezell-ford-autopsy_n_6364352.html
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TYT: Ezell Ford Autopsy Suggests The Cops’ Story Might Not Add Up (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 OP
The police have destroyed their own credibility nationally. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #1
Why is this no surprise? Its just one outrage that besmirches even the so called 'good cops'. marble falls Jan 2015 #2

Enthusiast

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1. The police have destroyed their own credibility nationally.
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 01:53 PM
Jan 2015

No one believes them any longer. And rightly so.

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