Posted on 04/26/2021 3:20:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter watched a 20-second portion of body camera video with Brown’s family. Lassiter said Brown did not appear to be a threat to officers as he backed his vehicle out of his driveway and tried to drive away from deputies with guns drawn.
When asked whether Brown was shot in the back, attorney Harry Daniels said, “Yes, back of the head.”
An eyewitness account and emergency scanner traffic had previously indicated Brown was shot in the back as he tried to drive away.
Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II has said that multiple deputies fired shots. Seven deputies are on leave pending a probe by the State Bureau of Investigation.
Earlier Monday, a search warrant was released that indicated investigators had recorded Brown selling small amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine to an informant. Crump argued that authorities were trying to release negative information about Brown while shielding themselves by holding back the video.
The search warrant said investigators believed Brown was storing drugs in the home or two vehicles. The document, which indicated the search was not completed, did not list anything found.
Two arrest warrants released last week charged him with possession with intent to sell and deliver 3 grams of each of the drugs.
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Okay, now that a little more information has been released it does not look quite as bad for the cops. The initial reporting only mentioned a search warrant and that he was shot driving away. However, if they also had arrest warrants for him as well as a search warrant for the vehicle he was driving, then he becomes a felon fleeing from arrest and possibly attempting to destroy or dispose of evidence. I’m still not sure if shooting him was justified - whether he was known to be violent or some other factor was in play - but it is a far cry from the way the story was first reported.
If you’re doing something illegal its okay for the police to shot you, just ask Ashli Babbitt
All is not lost. He has a son to carry on the family’s drug dealing ways.
What if the perp turned his head in another direction as he was fleeing?
In all 50 states, it’s illegal to shoot a fleeing felon unless you have reason to believe they are an imminent bodily threat to officers or the citizenry.
So they have to chase them down and beat their ass.
“Why were they shooting at him when he fled?”
Apparently they didn’t get the George Floyd/ Derek Chauvin email. Adios.
Good point. Not only that, but these black “families” that think they’re going to cash in big time and wail in front of cameras will fond that’s no longer the deal. The new deal will be “here’s a $20,000 check, and if we hear from you again, there will be another “ accidental shooting”.
If he had the car in gear and it moved, the shoot is probably legal as the cops were surrounding the car.
Once the car moved, he was operating a deadly weapon.
When I was young there was a Fleeing Felon Rule, at leas here. Run from a cop and get shot. An officer shooting an unarmed man in the front was more apt to get into trouble for it than shooting a fleeing man in the back.
$27 millions for Floyd family. This prompts ghetto lottery business everywhere
Fleeing from the police and if they would have gone after him it could have endangered a lot of people. Probably would have been a high speed chase.The guy was an idiot who’d probably been watching too much liberal news.
Driving away or trying to run over po-lice? Another black perp about to be made into a saint?
whatever. I’ll wait until the entire story is released. these “hands up” “She didn’t have a knife” bullshit narratives hit the pavement running on social media and in the media before we know the real story.
“attorneys” as in trying to milk yet another $27 million settlement out of some wimpy self-loathing liberals? How admirable./S
These phony "saints" go to the world to come and their first words are "This stupid heaven is awful, awful hot. I'm gonna get a protest march goin'. It is too hot."
“I also don’t know why some many thugs are pulling the Suicide by Cop routine these days.”
Because the government has made it profitable by accepting critical race theory as their bible.
Same as the $31B in unemployment fraud in Calif - no prosecutions on the first round meant open season free money for the second round - welfare addicts, illegals, even the already incarcerated were getting in on the action. With the simple act of raising the race card, accountability and personal responsibility goes out the window and free money flows - from the real ‘slaves’ to the real ‘oppressors’. And it will continue to do so, until the word ‘enough’ is used with emphasis.
Yes it does. That is what I thought they were saying when I saw the headline.
But the headline is misleading.
Deliberate spin to mislead.
OK, a perp can flee as long as he is facing away, says the next riot and lawsuit.
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In India, jungle workers wear a human face mask on the back of their head, so tigers will never see the back of their head, to discourage attacks.
Now, perps could wear a ‘back of the head’ mask over their face.
We will need x-ray body cams on the cops next.
Yep, it’s all about getting money.
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Sounds like he was resisting arrest.
IF he’s a meth dealer that fits the threat to the citizenry.
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