Ethics

Warrant Issued for Cop in GVSU Shooting

By Ed Brayton

Wow, this shocks me just because it's so rare. The officer who shot a student at Grand Valley State University here in Michigan is going to be arrested, as my colleague Eartha Melzer writes at the Michigan Messenger:

An arrest warrant has been issued for an Ottawa County sheriff's deputy who shot an unarmed Grand Valley State University student in the chest while approaching his apartment to execute a search warrant.

Deputy Ryan Huizenga was charged with a misdemeanor count of "careless discharge of a weapon causing injury or death" after an investigation by the state police determined that his finger was on the trigger -- rather than the safety guard -- of his department issued .40 caliber hand gun as he approached the home of 20 year-old Derek Copp as part of a drug raid last month.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).