Additionally Palo Alto Police Officer April Wagner asserted in her police report and Declarations that her bicycle helmet broke during the March 15, 2008 incident.
This is supported by photographs taken of her bicycle helmet at Stanford Hospital approximately an hour after the incident.
However Wagner's helmet was photographed undamaged 15 minutes after she claimed it had been damaged and 30 to 45 minutes prior to the photographs taken at the hospital. In this photograph the helmet is not damaged.
Conclusion: Wagner and her superior, Chief Dennis Burns, refused to secure her helmet into evidence because the helmet was not damaged. Wagner removed the visor from the helmet to falsely make it appear that it had been damaged when in fact it had not.
This is supported by photographs taken of her bicycle helmet at Stanford Hospital approximately an hour after the incident.
However Wagner's helmet was photographed undamaged 15 minutes after she claimed it had been damaged and 30 to 45 minutes prior to the photographs taken at the hospital. In this photograph the helmet is not damaged.
Conclusion: Wagner and her superior, Chief Dennis Burns, refused to secure her helmet into evidence because the helmet was not damaged. Wagner removed the visor from the helmet to falsely make it appear that it had been damaged when in fact it had not.