Spokane police Officer Karl Thompson described his encounter with Otto Zehm in a 2006 interview with Detective Terry Ferguson, who has since retired. Jurors heard that interview in court last week. Now you can listen to it above. Thompson is pictured outside the Yakima courthouse…
A Spokane police officer who is the target of a grand jury investigation for her role in the Otto Zehm case cried on the stand today as she alleged intimidation by federal agents. Sandy McIntyre, who has a "father-daughter relationship" with Karl Thompson, has previously…
Spokane police Officer Tim Moses was so rattled after meeting with federal investigators about the Otto Zehm case that he feared an agent might be secretly recording him when he met with him afterward. Moses knew an FBI agents from hostage negotiation team trainings, in…
A doctor who testified in the Rodney King police brutality case in 1992 told jurors the Karl Thompson excessive force trial Thursday that the case are comparable. "The Rodney King case had similar elements to the case at hand," said Dr. Harry Lincoln Smith. He…
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