Pasco shooting: Police won’t say how many shots were fired, family wants independent autopsy and protests spread

*It took a while for the engines of big media to recognize the validity of the Pasco,WA, police shooting, and now that it has the coverage is plentiful. Here’s a good sample to get you caught up on the latest. Reuters reports that the family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes has asked for an indepenednet autopsy and that the protests surrounding Zambrano-Montes’ death have spread to Seattle; also, The Guardian reports that Pasco police won’t say how many bullets were fired by police at the unarmed man. VL

Family of Mexican farm worker slain in Washington state seeks new autopsy

By Eric M. Johnson, Reuters

KENNEWICK, Wash. (Reuters) – The family of a Mexican farm worker killed by police in Washington state after he pelted them with rocks has asked for an independent autopsy into his death, county officials said on Thursday.

The family’s request comes amid ongoing protests over the Feb. 10 death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, a small city of about 68,000 residents that is heavily Hispanic but controlled by a largely white power structure.

“The family has requested that a second autopsy come in, and we are certainly going to allow that to happen,” Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Shawn Sant told reporters in neighboring Kennewick.

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Pasco shooting: police will not say how many bullets fired at unarmed man

By Oliver Laughland, The Guardian

Police investigating the fatal shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, a Hispanic man shot dead by officers in Pasco, Washington, have declined to reveal how many bullets were fired at the unarmed 35-year-old, despite assuring reporters they have accounted for all the rounds discharged during the fatal incident.

At a press conference on Thursday, Sgt Ken Lattin of Kennewick police, the spokesman for the special investigative unit (SIU) of neighboring forces investigating the incident, conceded for the first time that all three officers involved in the shooting had opened fire. He would not reveal how many rounds were discharged, arguing the medical examiner’s office would disclose the tally at a later date.

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Washington state protests spread over police shooting of Mexican man

By Victoria Cavaliere, Reuters

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Protests over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Mexican immigrant in southeastern Washington spread to the state’s largest city, Seattle, on Wednesday, with demonstrators renewing calls for change in policing tactics in the United States.

About two dozen people attended the rally in downtown Seattle, some 200 miles (320 km) northwest of the largely agricultural city of Pasco, where Antonio Zambrano-Montes was killed on Feb. 10.

His death has prompted protests in Pasco, some attended by hundreds of people in the city of about 68,000, half of whom are Hispanic, and drawn condemnation by the Mexican government.

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[Screenshot of Pasco incident from YouTube]

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