Police shooting probe to re-open after new video surfaces

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police shooting probe to re-open after new video surfaces

Updated 8:33 pm, Friday, January 8, 2016

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake County District Attorney says he will re-open the investigation into a fatal police shooting after new video surfaced that appears to show the man on the ground when he was shot.

District Attorney Sim Gill said he's taking seriously the new evidence made public Friday in the death of 42-year-old James Dudley Barker, who was killed Jan. 8, 2015, after hitting an officer with a snow shovel.

Gill says he's also looking into why his office didn't see the video during the original police investigation of the shooting.

He ruled in February 2015 that Salt Lake City Police Officer Matthew Taylor was justified when he fired the shots because Barker was reaching for the officer's gun.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-shooting-probe-to-re-open-after-new-video-6746777.php

[rpannier]

1. If he didn't see it, he knows why

because the video showed the cop committed a crime

[cstanleytech]

2. Will be interesting to read if this video corroborates the officers story or not. nt

[Democat]

3. There needs to be nationwide police cameras

Cameras that the officers cannot turn off. Footage needs to be sent in real time to a location where officers do not have access.

[catbyte]

4. Isn't it just awful, but that's what it's come to.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. aaaaaaaaaaaaakward