A tragic incident where a father was needlessly killed by police officers, who were trying to take his son to place him in foster care, has received new attention thanks to friends of the family and the man’s mother, who have refused to let the case die.
On February 3, 2012, 32-year-old single father William Reddie was shot dead in his Grayling, Michigan apartment after allegedly pulling a four-inch pocket knife and lunging at a Crawford County Sheriff’s deputy. Why were the police there in the first place? To remove Reddie’s two-year-old son because an anonymous source accused Reddie of smoking marijuana that day.
Although an investigation by a prosecutor in a neighboring Mich. county found the officer’s use of deadly force justifiable, a review of the circumstances leading up to the shooting, as well as interviews with friends and family members of Reddie, indicated that officers missed several opportunities to contain the situation before it escalated and quite possibly provoked Reddie into responding the way he allegedly did .... http://americanfreepress.net
