Find police officers were justified in shooting

From the office of the Boone County Attorney:

The Boone County Attorney’s Office has completed its review of the June 27, 2016, law enforcement shooting of Michael Disbrowe in Boone County, Iowa. 

The State of Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) provided an investigative report regarding the matter, which included interviews of law enforcement officers involved, witness interviews, crime scene analysis, and video and audio recordings made at the time of the shooting. The Iowa Department of Public Health also provided this office with the Report of Autopsy and Toxicology Reports on Michael Disbrowe.

The legal standard for this review is set forth in the Code of Iowa. Under Sections 704.1 and 704.3, one can use “reasonable force” if ‘that force and no more which a reasonable person, in like circumstances, would judge to be necessary to prevent an injury or loss and can include deadly force if it is reasonable to believe that such force is necessary to avoid injury or risk to one’s life or safety or the life or safety of another, or it is reasonable to believe that such force is necessary to resist a like force or threat.’ A person is justified in the use of reasonable force when the person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to defend oneself or another from any imminent use of unlawful force.

After a review of the DCI investigative report, police reports, video and audio recordings, and the Report of Autopsy, the Boone County Attorney’s Office has concluded that Boone Police Officers Joseph Slight and Nathan Kester were justified under the law in firing their weapons at Michael Disbrowe because they reasonably believed such force was necessary to defend them from an imminent use of unlawful force. 

Read more in the July 27 issue of The Ogden Reporter