An internal investigation has cleared a Des Moines Police shooting. Vanessa miller shot 28yearold ryan bolinger. Who was unarmed. When he charged her squad car. It all started with a traffic stop. Captured on video by a squad car dash camera. Police say bolinger was acting erratically. Then lead them on a pursuit on the Northwest Side of des moines. Bolinger eventually stopped. But police say he came at millers squad car. Miller opened fire from inside her vehicle. Shooting bolinger through the window. Des Moines Police chief dana wengert says millers actions were well within the departments use of force policy. How would a reasonable person react under those circumstances in that moment, not 20 minutes before or 20 minutes after but in that moment. That split second to make that decision. When you take all that into consideration, factor all that in and compare it to our policy, her actions do not violate our policy. The attorneys for ryan bolingers famiy have released this statement
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They believe officer miller charges in this shooting. And well break walk you by step. Jack still no verdict. A court case weve been following now for a week is taking a surprising turn. Hung jury. Pete polson is shooting up a Pleasant Hill neighborhood last fall, injuring two people. Jack local 5s Claire Powell joins us live from the courthouse with the latest. Claire . Claire jack and stephanie, after 16 hours and two full days of deliberation the jury in the attempted murder trial for pete polson has still not reached a verdict. They had a lot of questions today too asking the judge and attorneys to clarify what intoxication and mental disability means in relation to this case and if attempted murder necessitates premedatation or motive. But through the lot of evidence mention, 40 witnesses whove taken the stand including the three shooting victims. Polson himself even took the stand last thursday and friday testifying to the jury he doesnt remember the shooting, he would never inte
Were showing you the dash cam video from a deadly officer involved shooting. Thats straight ahead. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias the Des Moines Police chief says the deadly june 9th shooting with one of his officers was justified. This morning a closer look at the minutes leading up to a bizzare chase that left an unarmed man dead. Local fives kattey ortiz has the story. It starts with a routine traffic stop on merle hay road. While an officer is running plates. 28 year old Ryan Bolinger pulls up next to him in the middle of the road. move your car out of the way the officer repeatedly tells him to pull over elsewhere. move your car out of the way youre going danger bolinger outside of his car he gets back inside, and takes off. Starting a low speed he pulled up next to me at a traffic stop and got out of his car. Started running around on the highway then jumped back in en
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