PASCO, Wash. (AP) — The Hispanic group Consejo Latino has called for a special prosecutor for the case of three Pasco officers who shot and killed a man who threw rocks at cars and police.
The group asked Franklin County Prosecutor Shawn Sant in a letter Tuesday to step away from the case and ask the state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor.
The group says Sant has a conflict of interest because he has appeared at news briefings with the spokesman for a regional police unit investigating the shooting.
If the prosecutor refuses the request, Consejo Latino says it will ask the governor to intervene.
The group also has asked the Justice Department to investigate the Feb. 10 shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, a 35-year-old migrant farmworker.

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