Still trying to get attention. This is an attempt to discredit Mia Love during her run for Congress. Update to this story.
While national attention is now focusing on whether two Saratoga Springs police officers shot and killed a young black man because of his race, the various sides sparred Monday over which version of what happened is supported by emerging evidence.
Randall Edwards, attorney for the family of Darrien Hunt, said more witnesses came forward to support the family’s version that the 22-year-old was trying to flee police Wednesday when he was shot in the back. He said no witnesses — nor independent autopsy findings — support police versions that he was lunging at officers with a sword.
Meanwhile, Tim Taylor, chief deputy Utah County attorney, disputed Hunt family assertions that the sword was a decorator piece that is more of a toy and not a weapon. He said the 2- to 3-foot blade was steel and had a point and “was not a toy.”
Also, Taylor said investigators have obtained video surveillance tapes from businesses near where the shooting occurred but have not yet reviewed them. He also said investigators have not yet interviewed at length the two officers involved in the shooting but expect to do that later this week.[…]
The attention comes amid ongoing protests in Ferguson, Mo., over police shooting Michael Brown, a young, unarmed black man there. Also, ironically, it comes as former Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love is favored in a race to become the first black Republican woman elected to Congress.
Love said Monday that she did not know Hunt or his family, and did not want to comment on his death or claims that race played a part in the shooting.
“I don’t want to be mentioned in anything,” said Love. “I think it should just go through the process it is supposed to go through.”