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What?? No welts or gashes on the hand(s) holding the knife wielded by the now-dead perp?
As I said about this incident in a previous thread:
Horse puckey, Deputy Chief Janice. You can't zero in on "pressure points" with a baton under the "best" of conditions (e.g. unlawfully, with the subject restrained or unconcious) -- batons, expandable or otherwise, are to be used to effect "pain control" and temporary incapacitation through swelling of soft tissue, and not bone, with the legs, and not the arms, as the target.
MPA attorney Namsom seems to "get it," but from the wrong angle, IMO. In fact, his attempt at justification of the officers' improper use of batons would appear to be more damning than exculpatory.
Nice work, counselor. You missed the point entirely -- probably because you said what you were told to say by the same (allegedly) bungling cops and their (allegedly) duplicitous bosses.....
O.C. Smith is having his own problems- his testimony in Memphis area court cases has become something of a liability of late, and his future hereabouts is uncertain, to say the least.
The thing is, that the source of Dr. Smith's problems is federal, and apparently related to the pending execution of convicted Memphis copkiller Philip Workman, in which O.C. Smith's testimony played an important part. Problem is, if it wasn't a bullet from Workman's .45 automatic that killed Memphis police Lt. Ronnie Oliver, then it had to have come from one of the other two MPD cops at the 1981 scene- who swore they didn't fire. And to make it even more interesting, one of those two cops, Steve Parker, is now a Memphis Assistant US attorney, and it's the federal investigation into O.C. Smith that delayed Workman's execution.
The interesting possibility is that if a fellow Memphis cop shot Lt. Oliver, accidentally or otherwise, and the police at the scene conspired to frame Workman for the death, with Dr. Smith assisting after the fact, it's not just charges of perjury and obstruction of justice that they're facing.
United States Code, Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code,
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -
Section 241 - Conspiracy against rights:
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. Now wouldn't it be ironic if the holdup man charged with Lt Oliver's murder has the charges against him dropped, the death penalty provisions, at least, and the cops who tried to frame him end up behind bars themselves- possibly for life.
Or worse.
-archy-/-