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Ben Crump Hired by Family of US Airman Killed by Florida Sheriff Deputy
Newsweak ^ | 8 May 2024 | Monica Sager

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; florida; jbt; leo; media; race
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To: PallMal
IMHO, the Airman's family is dishonoring his memory by bringing Crump into the fold. Crump will scoop a big chunk of the settlement for himself, inflame the situation and leave the family with little to nothing.

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.

61 posted on 05/10/2024 6:15:41 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: DesertRhino

“””””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.


62 posted on 05/10/2024 6:24:35 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Drago

Freepers get confused

Were old


63 posted on 05/10/2024 6:26:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
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To: Bulwinkle
Yes,in a different set of circumstances it could surely be said that the cop overreacted.But this cop was responding to a domestic disturbance. Anyone who spends as much time as I do watching The Crime Channel (I'm retired) knows that domestics *often* turn ugly thanks to a filthbag psychopath guy with a gun...a knife...and a diagnosis of schizophrenia.And then you add to that the fact that he was sent to the wrong apartment.

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.

64 posted on 05/10/2024 6:27:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Has Biden and Barak went down there for the funeral yet?


65 posted on 05/10/2024 6:42:27 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: DesertRhino

That seems correct.


66 posted on 05/10/2024 6:49:43 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Gay State Conservative
I think the cop was wrong to shoot the guy but I don't like the fact that his family hired a race hustler to represent them. They are right to hire a lawyer but I'm sure there are hundreds of good lawyers who aren't race hustlers like Crump.
67 posted on 05/10/2024 7:10:34 AM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: bray

The Big Guy will send Heels Up Harris...then whitest “woman of color” I’ve ever seen.


68 posted on 05/10/2024 7:17:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I think (but am not certain) the cops say the apartment was the correct apartment.


69 posted on 05/10/2024 7:31:45 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

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.


70 posted on 05/10/2024 7:35:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Gay State Conservative

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


71 posted on 05/10/2024 7:48:07 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkle, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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To: DesertRhino

“ 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.


72 posted on 05/10/2024 7:55:25 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Race pimp.


73 posted on 05/10/2024 8:25:31 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OFRICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER ngressman is.GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Rdct29

Agree


74 posted on 05/10/2024 8:30:40 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OFRICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER ngressman is.GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: DesertRhino; Recovering_Democrat

“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.


75 posted on 05/10/2024 9:20:06 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: napscoordinator

“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


76 posted on 05/10/2024 9:27:58 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: DesertRhino
The mere sight of a gun doesn’t make it a free fire zone.

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.

77 posted on 05/10/2024 10:18:51 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: DesertRhino
All that it’s true. And the pistol was being held in his right hand, down by his side. In the very first second, at the -mere sight- of a gun, the cop opened fire. He isn’t cut out for cop work.

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

78 posted on 05/10/2024 10:31:36 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
If the airman, holding a pistol at this side, answered the odor for a UPS delivery man, and the UPS delivery man shot him, "in fear for his life," the delivery man would already be behind bars.

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.

79 posted on 05/10/2024 10:38:20 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: DesertRhino

Re: 20 - I’m with DR on this one.

Poor training? Probably.


80 posted on 05/10/2024 11:00:04 AM PDT by Fury
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