Some more on Filippou and #KeithDavisJr case. The initial interviews with witnesses make it clear that Filippou was the first on the scene at the garage and the first to start shooting. Her ricochets caused other officers to think Davis shooting.
Martina Washington, a woman in the garage, gave a statement that day, describing the "police lady" firing into the garage as Washington ran out. "she shot around me or something."
When Washington's boyfriend was asked who had a gun drawn when he ran out it was Filippou. When asked if she was the only one with gun drawn he said "I think so."
Another officer who arrived on the scene said Filippou was standing directly in front of the garage, uncovered, in a tactically bad position. "The only one was Filippou," he said. "I moved her b/c she was not only in the line of fire but she would have been shooting from behind..
Anybody. That was just an instinct...I replay it in my head, it was definitely Filippou." She not only could have been hit, he was saying, but she could have shot another officer or been shot by one.
But she has been edited out of the story, so that in court and paperwork Santiago and Eskins say they got there first. @MarilynMosbyEsq should listen to all the initial interviews (there are none with four shooters themselves of course), where she'll hear a clear timeline
placing Filippou as the first to arrive at the garage Davis ran into and the first to open fire. Given that we now have allegations that she was a drug dealer, like Wayne Jenkins, how can we have any confidence that the gun was not planted when she shot the wrong person?
If SAO goes ahead with this case, it will really solidify the claims her opponents have made about overlooking crimes of GTTF and other dirty cops by avoiding calling them just to get the numbers. so far, the prosecutors have helped BPD erase Filippou from the scenario
When she was a key player. Naively, I thought it was because she had a traumatic encounter on a domestic call the day before, where someone attacked her in a house. Despite everything, I would not have suspected she was dealing drugs.
