Lawyer Apologizes On Behalf Of Deputies In Compton Shooting

[USAcitizen]

Wearing suits and ties or dark sweaters, the deputies stood silently while lawyer Gregory Emerson explained they had each voluntarily told investigators what happened during Monday's videotaped shooting in Compton.

Emerson told reporters: "They're not hiding. They're honorable, decent individuals. They're proud professionals of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and they're willing to stand up and tell the community that they do apologize.

"Each one of them, to a person, that stands here today, wishes that things would have been a little bit different."

Emerson said the deputies didn't try to "harm or injure or otherwise jeopardize the safety of the individuals" on the street where 44-year-old Winston Hayes was shot. Deputies fired 120 rounds in the pre-dawn incident, striking Hayes four times and hitting one deputy in his bulletproof vest.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4487427/detail.html

I think that this is a step in the right direction. More than I ever expected from LAPD.

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1. And WHY

do these deputies need a "mouthpiece" to do their apologizing for them? Don't any of them have the guts to apologize personally?

[USAcitizen]

3. You are right

But I believe that about three or four years ago, we would not even have gotten that. They would have probably justified their actions. Little progress I know, but progress all the same.

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