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Article: Pr. George's Officer Cleared in Shooting; Police Panel Finds No Excessive Force
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- The Washington Post
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- July 15, 2005
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A Prince George's County police corporal who shot an unarmed man
in the back during a raid in Capitol Heights nearly three years ago
was found not guilty of using excessive force by a police trial board
yesterday, ending county action on one of the most controversial
police shooting cases of recent years.
After four days of testimony, the board, made up of a police
major, a captain and a corporal, acquitted Cpl. Charles K. Ramseur of
administrative charges in connection with the Dec. 11, 2002, shooting
of Desmond E. Ray.
Ramseur's shot severed Ray's spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed. A
second shot ripped into a nearby home, narrowly missing a 73-year-
old woman.
Ramseur, who has been on ...