Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Helping while black

"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."


[Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21,] killed by the police in an Alabama mall in November was shot three times from behind, according to a forensic examination commissioned by the man’s family.

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Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, was fatally shot in the middle of a panicked crowd at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., on Nov. 22, as officers responded to reports of gunshots on Thanksgiving night. Witnesses said Mr. Bradford, who was legally carrying a handgun, was directing shoppers to safety.

But the authorities publicly identified him as the gunman, an initial misidentification they retracted a day later.

[...]

The forensic examination indicated Mr. Bradford was shot in his back, the back of his head and the back of his neck.

[...]

Days after the shooting, the police arrested the man who they said fired the initial shots that caused the panic in the mall: Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20. They charged him with attempted murder.

  NYT
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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