Lawyer: Video proves murder of 7-year-old by Detroit police was ‘not an accident’

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A&E film crew for "The First 48" was present during police raid

An attorney for the family of a 7-year-old girl who was killed by a police officer's bullet during a weekend raid at their home said Monday that he saw video of the raid that contradicts the police department's version of what happened.

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said he watched three or four minutes of video that showed police fired into the home after lobbing a flash grenade through the window. He said this contradicts the police department's story, which was that the officer's gun discharged during a struggle or collision inside the home with the girl's grandmother.

"There is no question about what happened because it's in the videotape," Fieger said. "It's not an accident. It's not a mistake. There was no altercation.

"The gun was fired before anyone goes through the door. There are lights all over, like it's a television set."

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0517/lawyer-video-proves-murder-7yearold-detroit-police-not-accident/

[Lost4words]

1. Fieger will eat the Detroit police dept alive! I hope anyway. nt

This practice of working with media crews in a case like this should be outlawed!

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2. Then again, if the cameras weren't there, we would have never known

what really happened.