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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Ind. Courts - "Police probing Brizzi's role in golf cart crash"
Updating earlier ILB entries referencing Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, Jon Murray and Mark Alesia of the Indianapolis Star have a long story today that begins:
Police are looking at the role of Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi in a golf cart crash that injured an officer and also at Brizzi's extensive use of taxpayer-provided security, often into the early hours of the morning.Carl Brizzi has told The Indianapolis Star that he was driving the cart at an October 2008 campaign golf outing when he swerved to miss a vehicle in the Fishers course's parking lot, causing the cart to tip over. An officer assigned to his security detail was thrown from the cart, suffering a broken left wrist and a torn tendon in his finger.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has launched an internal affairs investigation to determine why both that officer's internal report on the injury and a public incident report provided an account that conflicted with Brizzi's.
In fact, Brizzi's name appears nowhere in those documents. Instead, they put the injured officer in the driver's seat and say only that he was working on a security detail, raising the question of why official reports would omit mention of the person most responsible for the crash.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 18, 2010 09:16 AM
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