at him.


6
Bradley got out of the police car with his .357 drawn and ordered Marshall out of the station wagon by shouting, "get out of this car mother fucker before I blow your God damned brains out!" When Marshall emerged from the vehicle, Bradley and Marshall recognized each other, as they had been boyhood friends. Bradley told Marshall that he had run a stop sign and asked Marshall why he did not stop when he saw the police lights. After a brief exchange, Bradley let Marshall leave and did not issue Marshall a traffic citation.


7
Bradley and Ashkar returned to the Brooklyn police station later that morning. Despite a department policy requiring police officers to immediately report the discharge of their firearm, Bradley left the station without reporting theshooting incident. Ashkar reported the shooting to his supervisors both orally and in writing before he left the police station that morning. Bradley did not mention the shooting until he was questioned about it by the Brooklyn Chief of Police when Bradley returned to work that night at 11:00 p.m.


8
After the shooting, Marshall went to the FBI office in Fairview Heights, Illinois and reported the incident. An agent from the FBI interviewed Marshall, inspected his station wagon, and recovered the bullet from the steel plate in the driver's seat. The FBI conducted a further investigation by interviewing Ashkar and Bradley. Based on the information collected by the FBI, Bradley was indicted on one count of willfully depriving a person of constitutional rights under color of law in violation