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Connecticut mulling changes to police shooting probes
Susan Haigh Associated Press
Published 1:31 pm EDT, Thursday, March 19, 2015
HARTFORD — Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether to require fatal shootings by police to be investigated by potentially impartial prosecutors.
A bill pushed by Senate President Martin Looney calls for investigations to be handled by a special prosecutor or a state's attorney from a judicial district outside of where the incident occurred. Looney says current law gives the chief state's attorney discretion in deciding who investigates fatal police shootings.
He says the bill is needed because there's always suspicion of a "whitewash" if an officer is cleared by a local prosecutor.
State NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile supports the bill. He says there's distrust of police and the judicial system in Connecticut, especially after high-profile police shootings in Missouri and New York.
A public hearing on the bill is set for Friday.