US Cop Enters Wrong Apartment, Shoots Dead Black Air Force Officer
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The 23-year-old Fortson was on FaceTime with his girlfriend, a nurse, when the shooting took place.
A Black airman in the US Air Force was shot and killed in an "excessive" use of force by a Florida sheriff's deputy who burst into the wrong apartment, a lawyer retained by his family said Thursday. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office releases bodycam footage of one of its officers shooting and killing U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson. 🤔 LOOK LIKE IT COULD BE STAGE THO . THOUGHTS 💭 ? pic.twitter.com/2Ms4SO82mK
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has represented the families of other African American victims of police violence, demanded a full investigation into the May 3 death of Roger Fortson.
Sheriff Eric Aden of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said the deputy was responding to reports of a "disturbance in progress" when the shooting occurred.
