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Police chief Leo Davenport refused to discuss specifics of the case. "There is very little I can say because I will someday soon sit in judgment on this particular case," Davenport said, adding that several independent investigations into the incident are underway...
...paramount concern in our in-service training to instruct police officers never to use firearms except when life is threatened," Davenport said...
...Davenport also denied Graham's charge that the police department had tried to "cover up" the incident. Graham said the police log had no record of a shooting and said only that Moore had been treated for a "puncture wound...
...police are concerned, there has been no attempt at a cover up," Davenport said. The "journal entry may have been the result of haste, or of a lack of aptitude about how to fill out the report," he added...
...Davenport said that the officer involved had been taken off the street "and put behind a desk" in the police station. When Graham said she thought he should have been suspended altogether, Russell Higely, the city's chief legal counsel, said since the officer would have to be paid anyway he "might as well be doing paperwork...