Wichita police chief had concerns over shooting investigations

Wichita police chief had concerns over shooting investigations

Wichita police chief had concerns over shooting investigations

By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press:

A Kansas police chief testified in a newly released deposition that he was so concerned about the fairness of internal department probes of police shootings in Wichita that he removed the high-ranking officers overseeing them and detectives conducting them.

Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay acknowledged investigators asked leading questions that could have prompted officers to claim the shootings were in self-defense.

He also testified that detectives working on the internal probes got involved in the related criminal investigations and were “potentially contaminating” those investigations.

Excerpts of the chief’s May 24 deposition were included in a court filing this week in a lawsuit filed by the family of Andrew Finch. The unarmed Wichita man was killed by police in 2017 when a dispute over an online video game sparked a hoax call.

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