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The story gets more interesting.

The Statesman states they’ve managed to get a copy of the independent report on the shooting incident involving Officer Quintana.

The 162-page report by KeyPoint Government Solutions, which was hired by the City of Austin to independently investigate the fatal shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II, reached conclusions that stand in contrast to the findings of police Chief Art Acevedo, who found that Quintana had not used excessive force or poor tactics. The consultant’s report was completed last fall, but its key findings were kept secret.

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The report also said Quintana’s tactics in the moments before the May 11, 2009, shooting were far worse than careless or negligent and instead bluntly declared them “reckless.” Investigators wrote in the report that they were “mindful of the legal import of the term.”

Note that Chief Acevedo rejects the findings of this report, and has stated that the shooting was “objectively reasonable and within Austin Police Department policy.” Note that Office Quintana was no-billed by a grand jury.

It is also worth pointing out that the Statesman is reporting based on what they claim is the full version of the report. That version has not been released to the public; only heavily edited parts has been released, and the city is fighting against releasing the full version.

So how did the Statesman get it?

This week, American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski received a call from a person who did not identify himself and said he had a complete copy of the document. The man declined to say how he had possession of the report but agreed to meet Plohetski so he could review it. When they met, Plohetski did not recognize the man, who again did not identify himself. He allowed Plohetski to review it for nearly three hours.

Curious. Curious, indeed.

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