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Wed Sep 2, 2015, 11:54 AM Sep 2015

Trigger-Happy Cop Shot One of His Own

A detective who worked narcotics with an undercover officer walked up to a car, shot his fellow officer twice, and then seven more times against the victim’s pleas.

There was the fact that Brachle knew Det. Jacob Grant was involved in a drug buy last January, a sting the superior officer walked up on while Grant sat in an undercover police car. There were Grant’s clothes, an outfit specially worn according to a safety protocol to prevent friendly fire incidents. Even Grant’s position in the car—behind another undercover narcotics agent in the driver’s seat—was to signal to other officers that the two men were cops.

But most damning—and the most confusing part of it all—is that Brachle and Grant were well-known to each other. For nearly two years, they worked in the narcotics division of the department.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/02/trigger-happy-cop-shot-one-of-his-own-and-kept-blasting-away.html

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Trigger-Happy Cop Shot One of His Own (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2015 OP
Serpico situation? Human101948 Sep 2015 #1
There is. The cops have circled the wagons and it's proven to be a real mess Warpy Sep 2015 #2

Warpy

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2. There is. The cops have circled the wagons and it's proven to be a real mess
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 01:12 PM
Sep 2015

and I doubt the truth will ever be known.

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