Diotaiuto was the man shot and killed by a raiding SWAT team in Sunrise, Florida last year. His case leads the introduction to my paper.

The reporter covering the case for the Sun-Sentinel tells me that the grand jury investigating the raid has been cancelled twice now, meaning that as we approach the one-year anniversary of the raid (August 6th), both the media and Diotaiuto’s family are still prohibited from accessing documents related to the investigation.

Apparently (and not surprisingly), an internal police investigation has cleared all officers involved.

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