Patrick Kolasinski on Government Transparency

Reference point: whether the officers were justified in firing at Mendoza Hernández. The complaint says officers fired as he struck an agent and drove toward two others; Kolasinski says that account conflicts with the video and the witnesses, in line with his client's position that he was shot before he moved the car. That rejects the factual basis offered for the shooting, so we used Denied. The Condemned label on his April 8 remarks does not fit here because this statement does not judge the officers' conduct; it rejects the government's version of events. Evidence: a reputable news report quoting his email.