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Death by Electrocutioner

Continued from page 7

Published on June 28, 2007

Just two weeks after Keith Graff's death, Carla Williams' sergeant wrote in her annual job evaluation, "You are able to bear the injustices a patrol officer is subjected to on the street without wanting to get even."

That was unintentionally ironic, as the evidence suggests getting even with a guy who had shoved his girlfriend was exactly what Chuck Anderson was doing for much of the 84 fatal seconds.

Later, the Phoenix Police Department cleared officers Anderson and Williams of any wrongdoing in the Graff killing. But even before then, the pair had been reassigned to new duties as school resource officers — Williams at an elementary school and Anderson at a high school.

Though the transfers were not demotions, they did have the effect of taking the officers off the streets of Phoenix. Their personnel evaluations since their transfers have been positive.

Terry Graff remains embittered after his son's death but says he resolved soon afterward to try not to hate all cops. Not long after Dave Uribe was murdered a week after Keith died, Graff says he donated a few bucks to a fund established in the late officer's name.

"I'm not a hateful person, and neither was my son," Terry Graff says. "I know in my heart that those officers murdered my son, but it wasn't the entire police department. I still think they should have prosecuted Officer Anderson on criminal charges. For the Phoenix Police Department not to have even given [Anderson and Williams] a slap on the wrist, well, that's hard to take."

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