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Hey KingCast, just because Boston police panels ordered 5 cases reviewed doesn't mean you can make Kelly Ayotte reopen her Franconia "investigation."

By Christopher King

In Boston there are five (5) cases just ordered back into review as noted in yesterday's Globe. Sorry folks, police don't walk on water. They make mistakes, and sometimes commit intentional infractions of policy and law and when they do, they -- along with the municipalities that allowed it -- must be held accountable.

This American Life asked me yesterday what I thought of the Franconia Collective's chances at getting this case re-opened, given the apparent intransigence of our Highest Legal Officer and rumoured Gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte.

I broke it down so hard, so simple. Some people want to try to take this case to some extreme level of abstraction when in fact it's very simple. You don't complete a homicide investigation in 24 hours and without any ballistics reports, you don't fail to obtain fingerprints and you don't lie about corroborated witness statements that say Gregory W. Floyd never spoke to Liko Kenney before shooting him. And you try to account for all spent casings. What a concept. This is basic stuff guys.

"It's 50-50% I said.... some of it depends on what we discover in the pending litigation. But whatever it is, we're going to move on it and see what happens."

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Also, on the Boston matter isn't it great to know that EXACTLY one year TO THE DAY that I wrote Martha McLeod to help establish the Civilian Review Boards as attempted earlier that year.

Check the links.

And she of course never even wrote me back and went straight to Jeff Strelzin, who along with NH AG Kelly Ayotte, repeatedly lied to the American public and as the Boston findings held,

"drew conclusions without facts to support them."

Liko Floyd talking to Liko and only firing on him after he ran into Bruce McKay.

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).