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i'1 I SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Saturday, October 17, 1992 A-5 DA's probe absolves cops in Denovo shooting Victim 'seemed of the chancellor's house. But it does not attempt to address tactical questions raised by some protesters such as whether the officers should have surrounded the house and negotiated with Denovo, instead of going in to find her, after the chancellor was safe. Despite the vindication from the district attorney's office, Foley said, "It's still a tragic incident There's no sense of glee here." ing. "As we've been saying all along, the officer was justified in doing what he did," said UC-Berkeley police Lt. Bill Foley.

"Hopefully, this answers questions that have been on people's minds as to what happened that morning." The report gives a detailed description of the events that led to the shooting and the police's attempt to get the armed Denovo out bent on ing chancellor and his wife from harm or possible death." The report at least partially vindicates the police, who were criticized by protesters who called the disturbed young woman's killing "cold-blooded murder" in a series of demonstrations after the shoot room, swinging at Chew with a machete and Chew fired four rapid shots, the report said. "The evidence in this case supports the conclusion that Chew was acting lawfully," the report said. "His purpose for being in the chancellor's home was to save the ro, were searching the on-campus mansion for Denovo, who had broken in at about 6 a.m. using a blow torch. The chancellor and his wife were evacuated and police re-entered the home to search, according to the report.

Denovo lunged out of a bed By Erin McCormick SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER PWIWM WHEN OTHER STORES ADVERTISE THAT THEY WILL BERKELEY The Alameda County district attorney's office, says police were justified in shoot-1 ing Rosebud Denovo, the machete-wielding activist who broke into, the mansion of UC-Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien Aug. I 25. The office's investigation re-1 port, made public Friday, con-! eludes that Oakland police Officer' Craig Chew fired the four shots that killed Denovo only after she lunged at him with a machete and "seemed bent on killing him." 1 The confrontation occurred while Chew and his police dog, Ne-, TO A COMPETITOR'S LOWER PRICE, COME IN AND SEE WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! WKrrrnirttmmKmiTk EfiDHI mwwrmm. I 45" 50" BIG SCREEN 30' ij jf Wf 111 32 S.jliHf STEREO IVVh i EH V- BIS SCREEN HITACHI di PIONEER' flD pioneer flagscSSQ WSSISQ XBR a new standard of performance! mCLSYR WARRANTY! 5 channel Dolby Pro-Logic Picture-in-picture effects and an all VCR 7 iUIIUUIIUiUUIIU! 900 line resolution. unsurpassea picture and sound.

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