On September 8 of 2005, 27 year old Fouad Kaady was involved in a car crash that resulted in his gas tank exploding. He caught fire, and frantic, ran out in the street. Police in the vicinity, investigating the accident, shot and killed Kaady.

Today a grand jury cleared the police officers of any criminal wrongdoing.

Read this original article from Oregonian staff writer Stuart Thompson. As usual, the victim is depicted as crazed.

Another article from the perspective of family and friends.

The police initially claimed that Kaady was armed with a shotgun. But no weapon was found on the naked, bleeding, burnt man.

I am so sick of this. I have a natural respect for authority, and have never committed a crime - I have even considered attending police academy myself - and yet whenever I see a police car driving alongside me, or slowing down so that I'll pass it (so they can run my plates), I get nervous. I get very, very nervous. Why should so many of us live with this fear?