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Family Appeals Decision On Shooting
Family Appeals Decision to Close Investigation on Shooting of US Citizen Tristan Anderson
Family appeals the
decision to close the investigation on the shooting of their
son following undeniable negligence in police
investigation.
This week the parents of
Tristan Anderson filed an appeal on the decision to close
the investigation concerning their son’s injury.– The 38
year-old American was critically injured by a high velocity
tear gas projectile shot by Israeli Border Police in the
West Bank village of Nili’in on March 13, 2009. The basic
grounds for the appeal include undeniable negligence in the
investigation. This negligence particularly involves two
critical errors in the investigation conducted by the
Investigative unit of the SJ District (West Bank) Israeli
Police Force:
• Mistaken identity: There were
several Border Police squads in Nili’in at the time of
Tristan’s injury, but only one of them was interviewed by
investigators. A thorough examination of the facts shows
that the squad interviewed was the wrong one.
• No field visit: The investigation team did not visit the scene of the incident or nearby viewpoints from which it would have been possible to understand distances and positions described by eyewitnesses to the incident.
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