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Thursday, October 28, 2004
HAD O'TOOLE BEEN TRAINED?
Yesterday's coverage of the investigation into Victoria Snelgrove's
death left a significant unanswered question: had Deputy
Superintendent Robert O'Toole been trained to use the "less lethal"
pepper-pellet gun or not? According to the Globe,
he hadn't been; according to the Herald,
he is "among the city's most experienced weapons experts."
Today that question appears to have
been resolved in favor of the Herald's account. Here is
today's
Globe:
Disputing an account in
yesterday's Globe, [attorney] Timothy M. Burke said his
client [O'Toole] was trained to use the weapon....
Police sources and a person
involved in the investigation into Snelgrove's death have told the
Globe that Robert O'Toole was not trained to use the
weapon.
But Burke said his client was
trained to use the gun and fired it "at least 10 times" when he
attended a five-day civil disturbance seminar in Ithaca, N.Y.,
prior to the Democratic National Convention in July....
Asked if O'Toole's firing the
weapon 10 times at a single instructional session constituted
being trained, Burke said, "In conjunction with his use of all
sorts of weapons, yes."
The Herald reports
today on whether O'Toole may have abandoned his supervisory role by
firing the gun himself.
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