Fatal police shooting of unarmed Black man in Pierce County to get new look

Fatal police shooting of unarmed Black man in Pierce County to get new look

GIG HARBOR, Wash. – A new investigation will be opened into the 2013 death of Leonard Thomas, an unarmed Black man killed by a Lakewood, Washington, police sniper during a response to a domestic-violence dispute, the state’s Office of Independent Investigations announced Monday.A retired King County Superior Court judge made the decision, determining that the new investigation should be based in part on evidence that came out in the civil trial …