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Officer Faces No Charges in Fatal Shooting in an Alabama Mall
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/alabama-mall-shooting-death.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytnational
I strongly believe this to be a violation of that man's second amendment right. I do not think it's right that he was shot. I do not think the training police are getting is good, if it allows and calls for this to happen. And I don't think the justice system should shield officers who discharge their weapon as a knee jerk reaction.
An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.
The shooting death of Emantic F. Bradford Jr., 21, at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Ala., prompted protests and raised questions about whether police officers are too quick to assume that a nonwhite person who is armed is a wrongdoer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/alabama-mall-shooting-death.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytnational
I strongly believe this to be a violation of that man's second amendment right. I do not think it's right that he was shot. I do not think the training police are getting is good, if it allows and calls for this to happen. And I don't think the justice system should shield officers who discharge their weapon as a knee jerk reaction.