Family Continues to Seek Justice in 2007 Fatal Police Shooting
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The family of Gregori Jackson, an 18-year-old man from Waldoboro, Maine, who was killed in a police shooting in 2007, is expressing dissatisfaction with the reopening of the investigation. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey recently announced that a report on the investigation will be issued, but the family and an advocate claim that they have not been provided with the information they were promised. Former Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos criticized the attorney general's statement, calling it 'Orwellian doublespeak' .
The shooting occurred during a traffic stop when reserve officer Zachary Curtis shot Jackson. Curtis claimed that Jackson resisted arrest and struck him with a log. The attorney general's office had previously declared the shooting justified, but the family and their advocate have l...
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