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Maine AG says shooting of man who stole police vehicles was justified but based on a “series of inaccurate beliefs”

Maine AG says shooting of man who stole police vehicles was justified but based on a “series of inaccurate beliefs”

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Maine’s Attorney General says 11 police officers were justified when they shot at a man who led officers on a chase last May.

The Attorney General’s report says officers opened fire on Gary Porter based on a “series of inaccurate beliefs” after he slipped out of his cuffs and stole two police vehicles before crashing one of them into a ditch in South Paris.

Officers believed Porter had opened fire when a deputy shot out their own back window, which was mistaken as gunfire directed at them.

The object believed to be a gun in Porter’s hand was actually a cellphone.

Porter survived the shooting.

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