That subject line comes from the email that Internal Affairs detective Chris Dunn, who was investigating the shooting of Nathaniel Sanders, sent when he figured out that he could use Sanders’ prior criminal history to justify the fact that APD shot the 18 year old young man while every officer on the scene had apparently forgotten to turn on their dashboard camera.

Which, as Chief Acevedo said, raises a few red flags, as IA’s job isn’t to be scary-smart about “making a causation” that excuses a shooting, it’s to investigate the truth of what happened. If Internal Affairs is on the record as trying to provide justifications when the police, um, shoot young black teenagers with no evidence of wrongdoing, then it surely does a bit of damage to their credibility as an institution.

Luckily, Acevedo agrees, and the detective was fired yesterday. But isn’t it kind of disturbing that we have to consider the facts that A) the memo leaked and B) Acevedo responded correctly to be luck?

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