From [HERE] and [HERE] The release of a report on how Pasadena police investigated the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed Black teen by two white cops has been delayed after a white judge granted the officers’ association a temporary restraining order. The association, the city and any interested parties have until Sept. 23 to file arguments for or against releasing the independent report, according to Pasadena city officials.

The Pasadena Police Officers Association and white Officers Matthew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen sued the city and its top officials and Superior Court Judge James Chalfant agreed to seal the report.

The police officers’ association claimed that the report revealed personnel records on the two officers who shot Kendrec McDade, 19, in March 2012.

"This is the perfect example of a document that should be sealed," Chalfant said, according to the Pasadena Star News. "I intend to grant the order to seal." The Star News and the Pasadena Press Weekly requested a copy of the report, by the Office of Independent Review Group, headed by Michael Gennaco.

Officers Mathew Griffin and Jeff Newlen, who were responding to a 911 call for a laptop stolen at gunpoint, chased McDade into a dark street in Northwest Pasadena and shot him dead allegedly when his hand was at his waistband, believing he was armed, police said. Investigators later discovered he was not armed and the 911 caller had lied about seeing weapons in order to get a quicker police response. McDade only had a cell phone in his pocket.

McDade also does not fit the profile of the kind of person who would normally commit armed robbery. He has no gang ties or prior arrests, was a star football player in high school, and was a student at Citrus College at the time of his death. [MORE] 

McDade was shot at point-blank range by one Pasadena police officer and then after being struck by a total of seven bullets he was handcuffed as he layed in the street dying, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office autopsy report. The federal lawsuit also alleges McDade was left on the street for a prolonged period of time without receiving first aid.