A federal judge on Friday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a gang member shot and killed at his 2014 trial.
However, Judge John E. Dowdell also ordered video of the shooting to be released. News outlets, who intervened in the lawsuit to unseal the video, were rushing reporters to the federal clerk’s office Friday afternoon to obtain a copy of the video showing a marshal shooting Siale Angilau.
Angilau was on trial for racketeering when, according to witness accounts, he picked up a pen or pencil from the defense table and ran toward the trial’s first witness.