From [HERE] and [HERE] In the hours after a Bronx teenager was shot and killed by a white New York City police sergeant on an October night in 2005, accounts of a tragedy crystallized into an orderly tale.

The police said that Leonel Disla, 19, had waved a long kitchen knife at two police officers before he was shot. The doubts of newspaper reporters were assuaged. Prosecutors declined to press charges. In the nine years since, the public record has not wavered: Mr. Disla, who was born in the Dominican Republic, had invited that fatal shot.

But this week, as tempers swirled on the streets of New York over police officers’ use of deadly force, that story began to erode. A six-person jury in Bronx Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously found the city and Sgt. Robert Barnett liable in Mr. Disla’s death, casting doubt on whether the teenager had wielded a knife at all. [no photos of Barnett have been published by the white media] 

A separate trial will determine what damages should be awarded to Mr. Disla’s family.

The unanimous verdict, which came a day after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer in the death of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., offered a stark reminder that even ironclad narratives of fatal police encounters can crumble. The Disla family’s pursuit of a lawsuit could presage the next steps for the family of Michael Brown, the teenager killed in Ferguson. [Expect racism. In the system of white supremacy/racism a "just" result is a random occurrence because actual justice cannot exist until the system of white supremacy is replaced with a system of justice. At any rate, a civil judgment is a private matter between two parties. And no public remedy is provided to the victims of white supremacy. If it happened to Leonel it can happen to you if you are non-white. To end racism, end white power.]