Update: Officer Cleared In Killing Thug

On March 23, 2010, police officers gave chase to two thugs who stole a Mercedes. The cops stopped the car and one thug was arrested right away while another took off. The cop and thug jumped over some fences and was caught in a yard. The thug pulled a gun and fired, hitting the police officer 3 times, including once in the leg, hitting the femoral artery. The cops partner came over and shot dead the thug with two head shots as his partner and thug were fighting.
Today, the officer who shot the thug dead was cleared by the coroner's inquest jury. It only took 30 minutes for them to clear the officers.
From the Sun: "A Metro Police officer was justified for fatally shooting a man March 23 who fired at a fellow officer, a Clark County coroner's jury ruled today.
The coroner's inquest jury began deliberating Friday afternoon over whether there was any criminal wrongdoing in the death of 26-year-old Damon Beal, who was killed by two bullets to the head fired by Metro Police Officer Christopher LeBlanc.
"I had no other choice but to fire those shots," LeBlanc told the jury during testimony in the inquest, which examined the events that led up to the death -- a car chase, a maneuver to get the car to crash and a foot chase over walls and through backyards of a Las Vegas neighborhood where another officer, Michael Madland, was seriously wounded when Beal shot him in the leg."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/may/21/coroners-inquest-under-way-death-man-who-shot-offi/
I just wonder why it took the jury 30 minutes.
Past blog posts: http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/03/injured-officer-update.html
http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/03/something-bothers-me-about-police.html
http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/03/officer-improvong-slowly.html
http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/03/injured-officer-idenified-thugs-have.html
http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/03/update-officer-shot-thug-killed.html
http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/03/breaking-news-metro-officer-shot.html