The Huntsville Times wonders "how the Huntsville Police Department investigates itself and whether its review policy is so lacking in balance and so opaque as to undermine public confidence in it."

When an officer shoots a citizen, and the federal courts say there's strong evidence that department policies weren't followed, yet that department doesn't condemn the officer's involvement, the public must be troubled.

Ricky Scheuerman ran over Officer Jeffrey Weaber's foot. He says it was an accident. Weaber shot Sheuerman three times in the chest. That was not an accident.

An internal investigation by the HPD exonerated Weaber despite a less than stellar work record that includes "a dozen or so wrecks in his police car." A federal judge has nonetheless concluded that the evidence of misconduct is strong enough to warrant a trial in Scheuerman's lawsuit against Weaber. [more ...]