re: NOPD cover-up in shooting death of Wendell Allen - video included

News reported this morning that the cop is petitioning to have his sentence reduced.

(I THINK) the slain boy's family supports the petition to reduce sentence. Seems like the ex-cop has met with the family and is really distressed by the accident. I hope that is true.

ETA: I did find this:

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"This is not about former NOPD officer Joshua Colclough," Burns said. Colclough "was merely a leaf that came from the tree (and) that was placed in the Department of Corrections. What we're interested in now is the officers that are still on the New Orleans Police force."

Burns would not say whether Allen's family members would speak in favor of shortening Cloclough's sentence.

"At some point prosecution ends and it merely become persecution," Burns said of Colclough's sentence. "We wish (Colclough) all the luck in the world.

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