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View Winners → 2012 Desposition of Chief Sanchez re: Kendrec McDade, appears on You Tube
News Nov 18, 2013
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A video of Pasadena Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez being deposed in connection with the shooting of Kendrec McDade in 2012 by Pasadena police officers has been posted on YouTube by the attorney initially hired to represent the family.
The partial deposition video, posted on Tuesday, November 12, shows Sanchez being questioned by attorney Caree Harper.
McDade was a 19-year-old black college student who was unarmed at the time he was shot and killed. However, the complicated story involved an alleged hold up robbery in which officers were told that the suspect(s) had guns. Harper is a lawyer for McDade’s father.
The lawyer also asked if it would have been more “prudent” to have someone other than Sanchez determine “whether or not the officers were within policy when they shot and killed Kendrec McDade?”
“Why not gather a panel, maybe a couple of people who hadn’t been involved in waistband shootings themselves?” asked Harper.
“It’s not the policy or practice or procedure in the Pasadena Police Department,” Sanchez said. “I’m saying that the Pasadena [Public] Safety Committee exists and they’re civilians and they provide oversight.”
When asked if he believes the Pasadena Safety Committee is enough to provide police oversight, Sanchez said he “believes so.”
