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Otto Zehm

Otto Zehm, a Spokane man with schizophrenia who worked as a janitor, died after a confrontation with police at a North Side Zip Trip store in March 2006.

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Police training expert defends use of force

YAKIMA – One of the Spokane Police Department’s top trainers told a jury Wednesday that any situation could justify an officer’s use of force, even taking a burglary report in the victim’s home. The testimony of Officer Terry Preuninger sparked verbal battles between federal prosecutors and defense attorneys for Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr., who is expected to take the stand today to defend his actions during his encounter on March 18, 2006, with Otto Zehm.
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Officers say Thomspon followed his training

YAKIMA – One of the Spokane Police Department’s top trainers told a jury today that any situation could justify an officer’s use of force, even taking a burglary report in the victim’s home. The testimony of Officer Terry Preuninger sparked verbal battles between federal prosecutors and defense attorneys for Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr., who is expected to take the stand today to defend his actions during his encounter on March 18, 2006, with Otto Zehm.
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Backup officer takes stand

YAKIMA – Spokane police Officer Steven Braun Jr. gave the jury an image of Otto Zehm as someone who probably had committed a robbery, was trying to flee and then struggled violently against Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. Braun provided details of the confrontation not captured on surveillance video from the north Spokane Zip Trip. Braun, the second officer to respond that night, described what he heard from dispatchers on March 18, 2006.
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Another defense expert disputes Zehm head strikes

A second defense expert has testified that head injuries suffered by Otto Zehm didn't come from a police baton. The Tuesday morning testimony by Dr. Dan Davis, a forensic pathologist, marked yet another day of wildly contradictory conclusions by court-recognized experts that jurors in the excessive force trial of Spokane police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. must sort out.
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