Sweden acquits officers in disabled man’s fatal shooting

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court has acquitted three police officers in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man with Down Syndrome who waved a toy gun.
The Stockholm District Court on Thursday found the officer who fired the shot that killed Eric Torell fatal shot not guilty of causing another person’s death and a second officer not guilty of misconduct because they acted in “an imagined emergency situation.”
The court also acquitted their commanding officer of