Posted on 07/09/2008 5:01:21 PM PDT by Coffee200am
The mother of a young Irishman who was shot and killed by police last week in the US is travelling to Oregon to meet with Marion County District Attorney Walt Beglau.
The meeting is expected to be on Friday, The Oregonian newspaper said today.
The death of Andrew “A.J.” Hanlon has sparked a public outcry in Ireland, and Dorothea Carroll is travelling to Oregon alongside some members of the Irish media.
Doug Hansen, a deputy district attorney, said earlier his office expects to convene a grand jury on the June 30 shooting death once an investigation is completed.
Mr Hanlon, described by his family as mentally ill, was killed when police officer Tony Gonzalez responded to a report of a burglary. But relatives said he was in the habit of banging on their door when he wanted to be let in, and that he may have just gotten confused and knocked on the wrong door.
Officer Gonzalez, who joined the police department in 2006, is on administrative leave.
He was also on an expired visa
He was a mentally disturbed illegal immigrant trying to smash his way into an innocent citizen’s home in the middle of the night. When police arrived he turned his psycho rage on them, forgetting that US police will shoot you rather than let you kick and punch them.
The libs are gonna love this then..”Fascist US Police Murder Disabled Immigrant”
Ah, but the police officer was a Latino!
So they are kind of puzzled over the whole thing....
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