Article: Judge rejects Lee family request for new trial; He also reprimands the family's attorneys for several mistakes including showing victim's bullet-riddled body.(NEWS)

Article: Fong Lee's family asks U.S. appeals court for ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 23, 2009 ;     438 words ... ... Byline: VINCE TUSS; STAFF WRITER The family of Fong Lee is appealing a federal judge's decision to deny a new trial in its suit against the city of Minneapolis ... Judge Paul Magnuson denied the motion for a new trial. VINCE TUSS

Article: PLANTED GUN A `FAIRY TALE'; Police Chief Dolan said that ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 14, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... time about a federal lawsuit brought by Fong Lee's family, denied allegations of a police ... worked together, Dolan said. Dolan said Fong Lee's behavior that day was suspicious and ... hand-to-hand exchange from one man to Fong Lee, Dolan said. He noted that Benz and ...

Article: FONG LEE LAWSUIT: THE VERDICT; `Not guilty' and not ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 29, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... officer who shot and killed 19-year-old Fong Lee in 2006 acted within the law, a federal ... that didn't appear to show a gun in Fong Lee's hand. Defendants in the suit maintained ... we will continue to seek answers," Fong Lee's older sister Shoua Lee said to reporters ...

Article: Fong Lee shooting case still will advance to trial; ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 8, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Attorneys for the family of 19-year-old Fong Lee, who was killed by a Minneapolis police ... precedent. What is important to know is that Fong Lee's case still goes to trial and officer ... witnesses that show there was no gun in Fong Lee's hand, he said. David Chanen - 612 ...

Article: Police chase, a shooting and death in a schoolyard; The officers ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... officer and a state trooper shot and killed Fong Lee, 19, after a confrontation in north ... Minneapolis officer fired shots. When Fong Lee didn't return home Saturday night ... Minneapolis. "We couldn't speak," Fong Lee's father, Nou Kai Lee, said Sunday ...

Article: ONE SHOOTING. TWO STORIES. Was this gun in the hand of ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 3, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... was adamant that day in July 2006 that Fong Lee had a gun in his hand, pointing at the ... she recalled Thursday. The debate over Fong Lee's death was reignited this week with ... Conflicting reports Officer Jason Andersen shot Fong Lee, 19, eight times during a chase on the ...

Article: Protest of Lee verdict draws crowd in St. Paul; Two days after a ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 31, 2009 ;     603 words ... ... The trial is over. But protests over Fong Lee's death continue. About 200 people ... particular and injustice in general. Fong Lee just happened to be Hmong, said Joseph ... Investigate the Mpls. police! and I am Fong Lee. Some community groups are scheduling ...