A Florida sheriff publicly released bodycam footage from a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman in his home last week – and disputed claims from the victim’s family that the deputy had gone to the wrong apartment.
Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden showed the video during a Thursday news conference, shortly after an attorney for the 23-year-old airman’s family called for its public release, saying the victim’s girlfriend was FaceTiming with him and believes the deputy was at the wrong unit.
The footage that I have seen shows that Mr.Fortson was indeed holding a pistol, but it was pointed down and his finger was not on the trigger. He made no move to raise the gun; the trigger-happy cop immediately shot him dead.
Being Black and armed seems to be a license for the cops to kill people. Again and again.
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