DA: No 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s against officer in Tennessee school 狙撃

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The police officer who 発射 and killed a student in a Tennessee high school will not 直面する 犯罪の 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s, a 検察官 発表するd Wednesday.

Knox 郡 地区 司法長官 Charme Allen said she 決定するd the 狙撃 of 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson Jr. by Knoxville police Officer Jonathon Clabough was "正当と認められる" under Tennessee´s self-弁護 法律. Allen 追加するd that she wouldn't 圧力(をかける) any other 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s against the three other officers 現在の at the time of the April 12 狙撃 at Austin-East Magnet High School in the East Tennessee city.

"It wasn´t an 平易な 事例/患者; it wasn´t clean 削減(する)," Allen told reporters during a 非常に長い news 会議/協議会 where she 解放(する)d for the first time the さまざまな police 団体/死体 camera tapes, 監視 (映画の)フィート数, 911 音声部の and other 文書s surrounding the 狙撃.

によれば the ビデオ, four officers 答える/応じるd to the school after a 国内の 乱用 call from the mother of Thompson's former girlfriend. The officers went into a bathroom where they believed Thompson was, but Allen's office said the officers did not know Thompson was carrying a handgun.

The next steps occurred in いっそう少なく than 15 seconds. The ビデオ shows the officers 位置を示すing and then 試みる/企てるing to 手錠 Thompson. One officer grabbed Thompson's 権利 arm, but Thompson's left arm was in his sweatshirt pocket where the ビデオ shows he was 持つ/拘留するing a handgun. The バーレル/樽 of the 武器 could be seen 頂点(に達する)ing through the pocket. Thompson's 武器 went off, hitting a trash can but not any of the officers.

The 発射 混乱させるd the officers into thinking their lives were in danger and one of them was 潜在的に 負傷させるd, Allen said - pointing to the さまざまな 声明s they later gave 捜査官/調査官s.

Knoxville police work the scene of a shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School Monday, April 12, 2021, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Knoxville police work the scene of a 狙撃 at Austin-East Magnet High School Monday, April 12, 2021, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Clabough can be seen 除去するing his 武器 and 狙撃 Thompson in the shoulder. Clabough 解雇する/砲火/射撃d his 武器 again as Thompson fell to the ground with the officers surrounding him. Clabough's second 発射 accidentally 攻撃する,衝突する police Officer Adam Wilson in the 脚.

A separate 無名の student was in a bathroom 立ち往生させる. The 団体/死体 camera (映画の)フィート数 shows an officer 手錠 that student, who could be heard 叫び声をあげるing for officers to tend to Thompson's 傷害s because he could see 血 coming from Thompson's 団体/死体.

Allen said the officers did not know Thompson had been 発射 until two minutes after 手錠ing him and turning over his 団体/死体. That's when they saw the large 量s of 血 and called the school nurse for 医療の 援助.

A 医療の examiner 報告(する)/憶測 showed that, because of the way Clabough 発射 Thompson, there was nothing the officers or school nurse could have done to save his life.

Knoxville police 長,指導者 Eve Thomas said in a 声明 that she was thankful the 調査 決定するd that her officers´ 活動/戦闘s were 正当化するd and "(疑いを)晴らすd of any 悪事を働くこと."

The newly 解放(する)d ビデオ 明らかにするs what transpired in the bathroom after 相反する acc ounts from the Tennessee Bureau of 調査. In a news 会議/協議会 すぐに after the 狙撃, TBI Director David Rausch said Thompson had 解雇する/砲火/射撃d 発射s as officers entered the bathroom, striking an officer. Two days later, the TBI changed its 声明, 説 the student´s gun was 解雇する/砲火/射撃d during a struggle with school 資源 officer Adam Willson, who was 負傷させるd. The TBI´s second 声明 said the officer was not 発射 with Thompson´s gun.

The 相反する 声明s helped 燃料 行動主義者s, political leaders and マスコミ 出口s to 需要・要求する that Allen's office 公然と 解放(する) the police 団体/死体 camera ビデオ after she 最初 resisted, 特記する/引用するing both the 現在進行中の 調査 and her 約束 that Thompson's family would 見解(をとる) the ビデオ before the public.

However, Allen - who has never 圧力(をかける)d 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s against an officer in the nearly dozen police 狙撃 事例/患者s she's 調査/捜査するd - was 軍隊d to を引き渡す the (映画の)フィート数 Wednesday when a 裁判官 agreed with city 公式の/役人s and マスコミ 出口s that the tapes should be 解放(する)d.

"My preference would not to do this today, but I'm under 圧力 from you (the マスコミ), from 政治家,政治屋s, and 行動主義者s groups," she said. "I get it. You should be able to see the ビデオ. I just think the タイミング, we have to come up with a better 過程."

Thompson's family spent four hours with Allen earlier that day going over every 詳細(に述べる) of the (映画の)フィート数, she said.

Knoxville 市長 Indya Kincannon said she had reached out to Thompson's family to 表明する her sympathy but they did not want to 会合,会う with her.

"My heart goes out to the family of Anthony Thompson Jr. and also the other families of children who have lost their lives in other circumstances, all in such a short time all from the same school. It´s heartbreaking," she said.

Off-campus gun 暴力/激しさ killed three other Austin-East students this year. After pausing in-person classes because of the most 最近の 狙撃, students will return Thursday.

"I know it´s going to be a different experience , said Breyauna Holloway, who has two children who …に出席する the school. "I know the teachers are going to be very emotional, so it may be hard for them and probably a lot of the students 焦点(を合わせる) and concentrate the way that they should."

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