It is not a surprise as this is standard in AmeriKa now:
"DA clears officer in Hofstra student death" Associated Press April 03, 2014
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A police officer who fatally shot a Hofstra University junior and her hostage-taker during a standoff inside an off-campus house had no option but deadly force, a prosecutor said Wednesday following an 11-month investigation.
Really?
Related: NYPD Defends Hofstra Hostage Slaying
Yeah, why didn't they wait for a negotiating team, and you gotta love the accidental killings when the ammunition clip has been emptied.
‘‘Though the results were unquestionably tragic, criminal charges under these circumstances would be inappropriate and legally unsustainable,’’ Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said at the conclusion of a report into the May 2013 shooting.
The prosecutor concluded that the death of 21-year-old Andrea Rebello of Tarrytown, N.Y., was caused by gunman Dalton Smith’s decisions to break into the residence armed with a gun, take several hostages, and then refuse to surrender when police arrived.
So they broke the door down and killed two people.
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I will say this, the police in AmeriKa are a far cry from "to protect and serve" -- unless it means, as it always has, protecting the ruling cla$$es from the rest of us.
