[piroque]

http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2015/11/06/names-marksville-city-marshals-fatal-shooting-released/75316448/

[KeyLargo]

The officers are 23-year-old Norris Greenhouse Jr., a reserve officer, and 32-year-old Lt. Derrick Stafford.

Colonel Mike Edmonson called the body camera footage of the incident, which has not been described in detail or released, “the most disturbing thing I’ve seen, and I will leave it at that.”

Added to the list of statements walked back from the original explanation is this: Edmonson said he was aware of no warrant being served to Few by the marshals, according to a report by The Guardian. Chris Few, Mardis’s father and the driver of the car, was reportedly not being served a warrant, he was apparently not backing his car into police, and he was definitely not armed. At least 18 shots were fired into the driver side of his car.

http://gawker.com/two-louisiana-city-marshals-charged-with-second-degree-1741166322

[piroque]

"This is not Stafford's first brush with the wrong side of the law. In October 2011, he was indicted by a Rapides Parish grand jury on two counts of aggravated rape."

The indictment alleged that he had raped two different victims, one in September 2004 and the other in February 2011. But, in May 2012, the case was dismissed without prejudice, which meant that the charges could be brought again.

Marksville officers wear body cameras, and Edmonson said the video investigators viewed was from a body camera.

Col. Mike Edmonson, Louisiana State Police superintendent, speaks about the arrest of two Marksville Ward 2 deputy marshals. In the background is Marksville Police Chief Elster Smith Jr. One of the men arrested, Derrick Stafford, is a Marksville Police Department lieutenant. (Photo: Miranda Klein/mquartemon@thetowntalk.com)

[Paleo Pete]

As usual I’ll withhold judgement until I have sufficient information.

That said it sounds bad, but it was claimed Michael Brown had his hands up at the beginning too...I was one of the few advising people to wait to make a decision until we had more info.

Same here. Even though it sounds bad on the surface, let’s not convict these guys before we know the details.