Except when you watch the body cam video the officer clearly and repeatedly identified himself while knocking on the door in BROAD DAYLIGHT and telling the subject to open the door. The cop did not cover the peephole of the apartment door, as his chief pointed out.
Right now the sheriff department is standing by their officer as the state investigates. Meanwhile grifter Crump plays the race card and fake news goes along because a black "airman" (he was in the service --which means he should know how to properly respond to authority) with a "legally owned gun" got shot.
Police were called to the apartment complex because of a disturbance.
It’s a truly unfortunate set of circumstances. I’ve seen the bodycam video and it’s unfortunate. But it’s not malicious. The property manager took the cop to the wrong apartment. But the victim answered the door with a gun in his hand after the cop knocked and identifed himself as the police. And now they have that vulture Ben Crump grifting his way through the tragedy. A bad situation made worse by greedy assholes hoping to cash in on others tragedy.
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However,the family hired the filthiest,most despicable, race pimp alive to represent them. As a result...if I was a juror in the civil trial I wouldn't vote to award them a single dime.
Ben Crump head looks like a Milk Dud.
By all accounts an upstanding airman was killed for the crime of the police going to the wrong apartment. There has been so much of this kind of stuff that it is utterly negligent of police departments not to have procedures to ensure they are going to the right place. And this airman did not deserve to die for this.
Upstanding black man... killed by cops ... in his own home.. in Florida.
... just as the spring protest season wraps up, and the summer protest season needs a theme.
Almost as if this whole event was scheduled.
Interjected hezs self no doubth.
If it was my case, I would sue the apartment complex too.
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.
And why do you have Airman in ironic quotes? Was he in the Air Force or not?
Ping. Your neck of the woods.
1- everybody has an opinion.
2- so home invaders just gotta yell “open da doh, izza PO-leece” and victims now gotta believe it and let them in sans sidearm? So you’re capped if you do, capped if you don’t.
3- Ben Crump? Mein Gott im Himmel,it’s black riot season already? I gotta take down my “f**k Palestine” signs back in Maryland.
One doesn’t have to open the door.
If this was a first “going to the wrong house” situation, I think it’d be more sympathetic. But they do this way too much all over the country.
Going to be another cop getting away with murder.
“prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump” = Shakedown.
Has Biden and Barak went down there for the funeral yet?
Race pimp.
Bottom line. Had he simply not opened the door, he would be alive. The cop didn’t have a legal reason to force entry.
So the police can just shoot anyone if they are a bit disoriented and wondering who is pounding on their door? Because no one ever has pretended to be law enforcement and break into a house ever before, right?
I support the police as much as anyone, but this cop was way too quick on the draw.