They should never have been called to duty.
We don't hold torturing war criminals accountable for their atrocities or banks for their bundled mortgage securities swindle; why should this guy be responsible for the gun show?
A tragedy, yes -- and that's all.
"Ex-police chief acquitted in Uzi shooting death; Ran event where boy, 8, lost control of machine gun" by Travis Andersen, Globe Staff / January 15, 2011
The emotionally racked trial of a former Pelham police chief charged in connection with the accidental shooting death of an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair came to an end yesterday with a jury acquitting Edward Fleury, who cried at the verdict.
Fleury, 53, was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and multiple counts of furnishing a machine gun to a minor. Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Conn., lost control of an Uzi submachine gun and shot himself in the head in front of shocked onlookers that included his father and brother. The jurors had viewed chilling video footage of the youth’s death, which occurred in October 2008, before they rendered their verdict....
Christopher Bizilj died when the Uzi submachine gun he fired suddenly tilted upward and then backward in his small hands and a bullet pierced his head....
Last week, jurors gasped as they watched a 15-second video clip of the boy’s death; his father had been filming his turn with the gun. Prosecutors stopped the video at the precise instant when the child remained standing but mortally wounded, sparing the jury the image of watching his body fall.
Before jurors saw the clip, Charles Bizilj testified that immediately after the accident he rushed to his crumpled son’s side and discovered that “a large portion of his cranium was missing.’’
Hampden District Attorney Mark Mastroianni said last night in a phone interview that his office accepts the jury’s verdict....
What else can he do?
“There’s just a constant sense of what an awful situation this is for all of the people involved,’’ he said. “There’s a young boy who’s gone, a young boy who’s not with us anymore and not with his family anymore.’’
This from the guy who made it worse by charging this fellow.
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Why are all state authorities such assholes?
