The KeyPoint Report: Read the Redacted Sections Here

If you've spent the weekend following the media fury over the leaked KeyPoint Sanders report - maybe you'd like to see what all the fuss is about, and read the previously redacted sections yourself.

Now you can.

Read our transcript of the unredacted report (pdf).

Read the redacted report (pdf).

Posted at the link is our direct, full transcript made of most of the previously redacted portions an unredacted copy of the independent investigation made into the May 2009 police-shooting death of Nathaniel Sanders II, conducted by KeyPoint Government Solutions, and originally released on Sept. 30, 2009, but heavily redacted by the city's legal department.

An anonymous source last week provided a copy of the redacted sections of report to the Chronicle for direct review; we were not allowed to make a photocopy of the report, but were given as much time as we needed to review the report and transcribe the portions that were redacted in the public version released by the city last fall. (A few apparent typographical errors in the original text are noted in brackets where they occur, as are a few editorial clarifications. Footnote numbers are indicated where they occur in the text, and the footnote material is transcribed where it occurs.)

This transcript includes the bulk of the previously redacted copy - including sections that discuss Officer Leonardo Quintana's previous history with Internal Affairs, and the conclusions reached by KeyPoint's independent investigators regarding Quintana's failure to identify himself as an officer, failure to use good tactics and follow his police training, and his use of deadly force against Sanders and against Sir Smith, another passenger of the car in which Sanders was riding the night he was killed. There were, however, several redacted sections that were missing from the copy we were provided - including a list of questions prepared by city attorneys that the independent investigators concluded that Internal Affairs detectives had failed to ask during their inquiry (this list is introduced but redacted on pages 78-80 of the released report; the otherwise unredacted copy we were given did not contain pages 79 or 80).

Nevertheless, the copy we were provided contained the bulk of the redacted sections - more than 30 pages of the 162-page report - including KeyPoint's ultimate conclusion that "significant tactical errors that rose to the level of recklessness were made by the involved officers, and that but for this recklessness the use of deadly physical force might very well have been avoided."

The report was compiled by a group of investigators working for KeyPoint Government Solutions (the same company that conducted an independent inquiry into the 2007 officer-involved shooting death of Kevin Brown), a team including two former prosecutors and a veteran police officer.

We have given page numbers so that readers can review these sections in tandem with the previously released redacted copy, which we have also posted above.