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Fatal Shooting of 2 Black Teenagers by Florida Deputy Is Under Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/angelo-crooms-benjamin-crump-video.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-geo-alpha-02&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=412023301&impression_id=800ac801-2e00-11eb-bd71-b3cc1bf12ad0&index=3&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=175956657&surface=more-in-us-news
Relatives are demanding answers about the shooting deaths of Angelo Crooms, 16, and Sincere Pierce, 18, by a sheriffs deputy in Cocoa, Fla.
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Screenshots from a video released by the Brevard County Sheriffs Office in Florida of a deputy fatally shooting two Black teenagers.Credit... Brevard County Sheriff's Office
By Johnny Diaz and Michael Levenson
Nov. 22, 2020
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Dashcam video showed the deputies in each of their cruisers following a car as it turned onto a street and then into the driveway of a house in a residential neighborhood in Cocoa, which is about 45 miles east of Orlando. It was not clear how long the deputies had been following the car.
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The police said that Mr. Crooms then drove at Deputy Santiago-Miranda, who fired his gun in an attempt to stop the deadly threat of the car from crashing into him. On the video, at least eight shots could be heard striking the car.
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Out of harms way, the deputy moved closer to get a better shot, and fired with the intent to kill, and then kept firing as the car passed by, Mr. Crump wrote.
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Please, dont shoot! Please, dont shoot! My babys in that car! she recalled screaming. Deputy Santiago-Miranda then fired, even though the car with the teenagers inside was turning away from him, she said.
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The car was not stolen. It was owned by the driver's girlfriend. In the article the police spokesperson repeatedly said that officers' lives were threatened. I'll bet with anyone: these cops will be back on patrol in a couple of weeks after a paid vacation ... I mean suspension.
llashram
(6,265 posts)I just hope our Justice Department can start looking at these type of murders. These two cops need prison time. I know these are just local racists but the pattern of death and destruction perpetrated by cops like these must be investigated. I don't know how I just hope there is a way to investigate at the federal level. And a baby was in the car.
marble falls
(57,063 posts)checking into on the radio. Didn't even require "contacting the driver". He shot them because they pissed him off.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)No one is.