Austin's chief of police suspended Officer Leonardo Quintana 15 days for violating department policy in the shooting death of Nathaniel Sanders.
The attorney for Nathaniel Sanders’ family, Adam Loewy, says Chief Acevedo's decision is ridiculous, extremely disappointing, and he called it an insult to the Sanders family and to the entire Austin community.
But Loewy said he also is not surprised.
Loewy spoke to journalists just moments after Chief Acevedo announced his decision regarding Quintana.
Loewy included pictures from the scene of the shooting, and for the first time we were able to see the station wagon where Sanders and two other men were sleeping the night Sanders was shot and killed.
APD has always said that Sanders was shot because he struggled with Officer Quintana over a gun that was in the teenager's waistband.
Loewy says that has never been the case.
“There were tests done on a gun that was allegedly found at the scene and the tests came back and were very clear in stating that Nate Sanders’ fingerprints were not on the gun. They could not match his fingerprints on the gun. This is obviously a shocking revelation; this is something that APD has not discussed,” he said.
