Austin detective fired over bias in shooting inquiry
E-mails among evidence cited in finding that favoritism shown toward officer who killed suspect.

11/6/2009

Friday, November 06, 2009

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo called a former internal affairs detective "damaged goods" and fired him Wednesday for showing bias in favor of senior police officer Leonardo Quintana, who fatally shot Nathaniel Sanders II in May.

In a blistering eight-page disciplinary memo, Acevedo said Detective Chris Dunn repeatedly showed favoritism toward Quintana, citing two e-mails Dunn wrote during the investigation.

"Detective Dunn's actions have undermined public respect and trust for the internal affairs division and department as a whole," Acevedo wrote in the memo. "Detective Dunn has lost all credibility himself as an effective police officer or an investigator."
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/11/06/1106dunn.html

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