More Mistakes Friday by Atlanta Sheriffs
Additional mistakes by law enforcement are coming to light in Friday's Atlanta courthouse shootings:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that a courthouse surveillance camera recorded Nichols' initial surprise attack on Deputy Cynthia Hall but that no one in the control center noticed the assault.
"It's not just horrible, it was preventable," Senior Superior Court Judge Philip Etheridge told the newspaper. A video camera that is supposed to be monitored by two guards in a command post shows Nichols lunging at Hall and knocking her backward, according to a law enforcement official who saw the tape.
Etheridge said Hall, a petite 51-year-old, should not have been alone with Nichols, a former college linebacker who had been found with two sharpened door hinges in his socks earlier in the week.
From all the interview segments I've seen of hostage Ashley Smith, it sounds like she will be a good mitigation witness for Nichols. That's good news for the lawyers who will be trying to save his life.
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