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The more information that comes out about the police shooting of 19-year-old Justin Jackson, the less straightforward events appear. If Jackson showed police his hands—holding a gun, as they said—then how did he shoot through his jacket as the medical examiner reported? And if, as the expanded report released May 14 indicates, the officers were just three feet away when they set Alf the police dog on Jackson—the report said he had bite marks—could they not have simply grabbed him instead of shooting him multiple times? Jackson’s father has yet another question: if the police dog had his son by the right arm, how did the right-handed young man shoot at officers and kill the dog? Potters House Ministries Bishop Otis Carswell, who eulogized Jackson at his May 12 funeral, may have an answer. As he told friends and mourners, Carswell repeated to the New Pittsburgh Courier that he “saw no gun.”