Posted on 05/10/2024 2:23:47 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
The family of a 23-year-old US Airman who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy retained prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Roger Fortson was shot and killed inside his apartment on Friday when an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy responding to a disturbance call "reacted in self-defense after he encountered a 23-year-old man armed with a gun."
"We demand accountability for those responsible for his death," Crump said in an email to Newsweek. "And we stand in solidarity with Roger's family and friends as they navigate this unimaginable loss."
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The Airman was killed for doing nothing wrong, and I get the family's desire to see heads roll, but they should have hired an eagle instead of a vulture.
“””””The mere sight of a gun doesn’t make it a free fire zone.”””””
This is what I mean when I say that cops need to know they have to accept a certain amount of risk to be a cop, they cannot just kill every possible threat in front of them and then try to sort out what happened.
It was the duty of that cop to endure and cope with that airman having a pistol at his side in his own home, and handle it, the greater burden of accepting risk was on the man who was working at that moment, the cop, not the homeowner.
Freepers get confused
Were old
Given *those* undeniable facts I'm not sure I'd use the word "overreacted".
Yes,of course it was tragic...very tragic. But if I'm a juror in the civil trial the only votes of "financially liable" I'm gonna cast are against the people who were responsible for the cop going to the wrong apartment.
Has Biden and Barak went down there for the funeral yet?
That seems correct.
The Big Guy will send Heels Up Harris...then whitest “woman of color” I’ve ever seen.
I think (but am not certain) the cops say the apartment was the correct apartment.
It will certainly be seen at trial just what the cop was told...it will be on his bodycam. That is,unless his bodycam somehow “malfunctioned” at the pivotal moment. Bodycams do seem to malfunction a lot when they’re recording things that make the cops look bad.
It’s not clear yet if the Officer went to the correct department but the wrong apartment… I’m also wondering if there actually was a disturbance or if w
a woman named “Karen” essentially swatted the guy
“ He has the gun in his hand, down by his side. He didn’t make a move with it. He was probably thinking it was a home invasion. Not a good shoot. And no, you really don’t get to just shoot because the guy answers the door armed. This is a bad as those two female cops in Houston who mag dumped on that woman answering her door.
The mere sight of a gun doesn’t make it a free fire zone.”
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Your good post bares repeating. I would also note that while, as the chief says, the deputy didn’t cover the peephole with his hand he DID step aside out of the field of vision of that peephole. So the airman could not see who was loudly knocking on his door.
Race pimp.
Agree
“The mere sight of a gun doesn’t make it a free fire zone.”
Especially in a jurisdiction where holding a firearm in your own damned house is an absolutely legal and justifiable thing to do!
The cop who did this needs to hang. And any other jerkoff with a badge who thinks they have a right to mag dump on a law abiding citizen also needs to hang. Screw them, screw their badges, screw their ‘safety’, and screw their magical costumes!
Any more urban police departments are the domestic standing army our forefathers warned us about.
* They stop people without cause and demand their papers.
* They force their way into people’s homes without warrants.
* They arrest people without actual charges.
* They almost always cover up their crimes.
* They fear cameras even more than they fear guns.
* They’re all too frequently bullies who get off on beating people.
* Too many urban police openly and flagrantly hold the Constitution in contempt and openly smear anyone asserting their rights as a ‘Sovereign Citizen’ and then they use the Sovereign Citizen’ smear as justification for violating someone’s rights.
If we have come to the point where we have to fear getting murdered by the damned police and in our own homes then it is time to put an end to the modern experiment of policing.
Restore Constitutional Carry and let law abiding citizens deal with our problems on our own.
If we need a crime report we’ll talk to our elected and accountable sheriff and his modest staff of deputies.
“We would on FR if someone posts it. I only heard of this story on here.”
BBC is covering it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68979577
If you're a cop it does. You'll find people right here on FR that think that "officer safety" trumps the 2nd amendment every time. If a cop sees a 'gun', he can kill anyone with impunity regardless of what the 'gun' actually turns out to be.
Being a cop isn't even one of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the country. It may not even be in the top 20.
To the contrary, I think the cop is perfectly suited to the way the government works and most likely to the way he was trained. Most people aren't trained to instantly open fire at the merest suggestion of potential danger like cops are. It takes training to get that kind of reaction, because most decent folks are conditioned from childhood that you can't just kill someone because you are frightened. That has to be drilled out of them under the mantra of "officer safety", because their lives are so much more important than some common citizen who doesn't happen to wear the magical blue suit of accountability elimination. The government doesn't care how many citizens have to die to support the police state
Exactly! If I were on a jury, that is exactly how I would consider the case. Or "What would happen to me if I had shot the guy?".
Police should actually be held to a higher standard than a similarly situated UPS guy.
Re: 20 - I’m with DR on this one.
Poor training? Probably.
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