By Claire Galofaro, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
A New Orleans police officer charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a young man during a drug raid last yearasked the court on Friday to move his upcoming trial outside of the city, citing the public’s widespread and racially charged interest in the case.
Joshua Colclough, a four-year veteran of the NOPD, fired a single bullet into 20-year-old Wendell Allen’s chest on March 7, 2012, according to an NOPD investigation. Police were at Allen’s home on Prentiss Street in Gentilly, executing a search warrant related to a marijuana investigation
Allen was unarmed, shirtless and wearing jeans and sneakers; five children were in the home.
“From the beginning, this incident has had racially charged implications,” Colclough’s attorney, Claude Kelly, wrote in his motion for a change of venue Friday. “Regardless of the facts of the matter, the populace — fueled by media reports during and after the incident — has become polarized along racial lines. Thus it is impossible for the court to seat a jury in this parish unbiased by the racially charged coverage that has permeated this incident.”
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