Posted on 05/27/2023 12:25:46 AM PDT by thecodont
An attorney for the family of Banko Brown — the transgender Black man who was shot and killed by a private security guard outside a Walgreens store in downtown San Francisco last month — announced Friday that he was filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens, the security guard and the guard's employer, Kingdom Group Protective Services. The lawsuit comes days after California's attorney general announced he would review San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins' decision to not charge the guard.
The attorney, John Burris, said at a Friday news conference that Brown's death particularly appalled him because he believes the guard made a clear choice to shoot Brown when he was not in danger.
“This is one of the few cases that is most, most, most disturbing. I’ve been involved in a lot of death cases, and this death case seems so woefully unnecessary because there was a choice that was made,” he said. “This wasn’t a heat-of-the-moment thing.”
Burris filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of Brown's parents, Kevinisha Henderson and Terry Brown. Burris said the security guard, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, was culpable for shooting Brown; that Walgreens was culpable for hiring a private security guard and encouraging staff to be more aggressive with shoplifters; and that Kingdom Group Protective Services was culpable for hiring a man who was “emotionally distressed.”
Burris is seeking at least $25 million in damages to go to Brown's family. The announcement came just a day after Brown's funeral was held at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.
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SF Chron is trying very, very hard to make this into a George Floyd story.
I wish they’d put me on that jury.
There’s hilarious footage from the memorial service. A real riot.
I miss America when it was a serious country.
Some slezoid lawyer talked her into buying a ticket in the Lawsuit Lottery.
first i heard banko was transgender
black on black was a push
but this would be different
two protected classes beats one
Banko Brown - a legend in the making.
there go the remaining retailers out of sf...
In a sane world the security guard would be hailed as a hero for taking out the trash.
They are just a bunch of thieves and grifters.
“There’s hilarious footage from the memorial service. “
I immediately thought of Chuckles The Clown’s funeral.
Anytime a black person has an issue John Burris is on the scene. He must have had an interaction with some form of authority. He seems to HATE the Police and only has Black clients.
Absolutely--the kicker was the NAACP preacher/race pimp's sermon about the family was what set em' all off.
What's the saying, "you can take the thug out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the thug."
I carry (legally, of course) whenever I go to our local Walgreens ever since a guy tried to hustle me at the check-out. I was told later by the employee that he’s been told before to stay the hell out of there.
Did they use his preferred pronouns in the court filing?
If they didn’t ‘ol Banko will be turning over in his grave.
The family and sleazebag lawyers trying to make bank off of ol’ Banko, may he/she RIP.
What did the preacher say that set them off at the funeral? I thought it was a dispute between Banko's biological mother and his/her step-mother that set the fight off since both, despite probably shunning Banko in real life, now suddenly want to claim motherhood status in order to collect the possible $$$$$ payout.
Undoubtedly this yelling and commotion in church, was over who will be getting the Banko ghetto lottery $$$$$
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