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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Tue Dec 4, 2018, 02:17 AM Dec 2018

Exam: Black man killed by officer shot 3 times in back

Source: Associated Press


Jay Reeves, Associated Press
Updated 11:02 pm CST, Monday, December 3, 2018

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A forensic examination shows a black man was shot three times in the back side of his body when an Alabama police officer mistook him for the shooter after gunfire erupted at a crowded shopping mall, the man's family said Monday.

The results of a report commissioned by the family are "devastating" to relatives of Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., their lawyer, Ben Crump, said at an emotional news conference.

Emantic Bradford Sr. angrily jabbed his finger at the TV cameras as he addressed the unnamed officer, saying: "You're a coward!"

The officer in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover should be charged with homicide, Bradford said, "because this is murder."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Autopsy-results-expected-on-black-man-shot-by-13438850.php#photo-16593550

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Exam: Black man killed by officer shot 3 times in back (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2018 OP
The sad thing is BumRushDaShow Dec 2018 #1

BumRushDaShow

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1. The sad thing is
Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:55 AM
Dec 2018

if you are a black officer or security guard, you are never considered "a good guy with a gun". Guaranteed you will be a "dead guy with a gun killed by fake 'good guys with a gun'".

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