Citizen panel exonerates cops in Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal killing

A citizens panel has exonerated the two Salt Lake City police officers who killed Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, concluding that under the circumstances it was reasonable, as construed under Utah law, for both men to each fire 17 rounds at the fleeing robbery suspect.The ruling, coming seven weeks after the May 23 shooting, sharply diverges from the case put forward by the 22-year-old victim’s family, whose lawyers have argued that it was excessive for the officers to open fire and keep shoot