Alabama Police Officer Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Mistaken Gunman

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The attorney general says the officer was justified because the man was running toward the victim with a firearm. A lawyer for the dead man's family says the police 'feared a black man with a gun.'

 

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its no wonder police are being killed in Alabama. RobertEarlLawrence - military personnel in overseas combat areas arent aloud to treat enemy combatants trying to kill them the wat every POS cop in Alabama treats their citizens. FTP

Trash. Double standard. Hypocritical ‘justice system’. The faux justice system needs to be held accountable. They are enemies of the people they should be serving and protecting.

No one's talking about black males being 9 times more likely to be involved with violent crime and the fact that while AA males are only 7% of the US population, occupy almost 40% of the prison population.

Read the Alabama Attorney General's report. conveniently left out of the mainstream media's coverage is the fact that EJ knew the assailant and victim, stood over the victim with his handgun drawn, and refused to drop weapon when commanded by police. facts , not color.

I believe the Alabama AG’s report shows why open carry laws are a bad idea in the first place. In a situation where there’s a active shooting, it makes it harder for the police to tell who the assailant is.

Emantic Bradford’s, Jr.’s shooting and subsequent death at the hands of law enforcement prove one thing...”open carry” laws were not designed for black people.

Odd ... this is about the point when the NRA would be standing up for the right of a law-abiding citizen to bare arms ... oh ... right ... the guy is black ...

I just noticed that everyone in the video is running from the guy with the gun. they were clearly scared of Mr. Bedford.

Anyone know where I can download the AG report from?

I am so heartbroken

That is what can happen if non police carry guns. They are sadly mistaken for the bad guy.

Witnesses said he was told several times to drop his weapon as he was running away toward a crowd of people. That's why he got shot. People want make it a race thing and play the victim knowing they're wrong. Like a child having a fit. Hard to respect a race with crybabies

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Of course he won’t. Because we want police to know that it’s ok to kill whomever the fuck they feel like killing. Without consequence.

policethepolice

Will the officer be released or given a desk job? He doesn't need to be in the field.

But if he had been white....the presumption would have been different. Military man who defended others & stopped a hostile man...shot 3 times in the back. I understand the fog in the chaos of that event & split second decisions...but manslaughter charge & trial appropriate.

Police officers are given a lot of power, and they’re expected to wield it to a much higher standard than the rest of us would. When they behave no better than us, or even worse than most of us, they should no longer be police officers.

Apparently a hero with a gun only applies to white folks NRA?

Because Amerikkka

response from DLoesch and the NRA?

Not surprised it's Alabama

This is just insane

We are still moving in the wrong direction with policing in this country. This is shameful.

Pathetic

Mistakes happen

America is a fascist state.

Why weren’t body cams turned on?! This is some 🐂💩! Officers are given those body cams to hold them accountable and prove they are doing job lawfully. Cameras should be on the moment you start your shift, until you punch off the clock! Stop killing Black Americans out of fear

Of course he won’t, we knew that. Another black man dead and the killer walks. Welcome to 1955.

Good guy with a gun, narrative-fail.

Alabama, your racism continues to astound.

Turn your head and cry, America. Murder is still justified in our land. May God shed his grace on the families of those murdered because of their color.

Disgusting and heartbreaking.

Sorry I am new to this topic. Didn’t Bradford brandish a gun in civilian clothing at the mall immediately after the shooting?

So you can mistakenly kill the wrong person now. Why is he not charged ?- cold blooded murderers ( police )

NotOneMoreChild

Sad...

A tragic error. Negligence or incompetence deserving of departmental punishment? Probably. Should the city suffer civil liability? Definitely. But was it a crime? No.

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Was he fired? He lacks the judgement of a police officer. Were those who trained and supervised him fired? They clearly hadn’t done their jobs properly either.

murder.

It’s Alabama are you REALLY surprised?

Ofcourse he wont

It's terrible that the killer-cop's name is withheld.

A travesty

GOPethics = Don’t be brown

By this logic, any citizen with a lawfully possessed gun can be “mistakenly” (and “not criminally”) shot by police. So arming teachers would get us what? PoliceThePolice

'Now we are dealing with hopelessness.' - Michelle Obama

When will BlackLivesMatter ?

I’m really, really fucking tired of this non-accountability bullshit. 😒

SondraCosgrove 😡😡😡😡

Horrible. Black 2nd Amendment needs a special uniform in which to have safe exercise of that right to bear arms.

It’s just another Wednesday in ‘Murikkka

Wasn’t he active duty military?

This is why we kneel

Um.. sorry to toss some logic into this. But wouldn't the actual shooter be running away from the victim, not toward him?

And thus ends the 'good guy with a gun . . . Argument . . .'

So what? Cops make mistakes too. It won’t relieve him of civil responsibility.

Emantic 'EJ' Bradford Jr was a Good Guy With A Gun and the NRA is going to be in full outrage over this government infringement of his lawfully using his 2A rights to protect the public. Right?

That headline is not doing the job. The victim was not a mistaken gunman.

cops murder with impunity. the end

And then the cops will go on camera and say, 'Duuuuh...we don't know why nobody don't like us...'

Of course not. 🙄😠

This is bullshit, that officer needs to be terminated, and some kind of charges brought.

Yeah I need to read the report in this case... Something doesn't sit right. Another reason why all LEO should be trained with community policing and de-escalation.

While it is terrible he died, he did run towards the shooting while holding a gun. There definitely are cases of an officer's racism ending in a wrongful death, but this was a mistake made in the heat of the moment

A black man killed in Alabama by the police ,are we really expecting the PO to be charged? Come on Now!!! 3/5.

That’s a f—-ing crime!!

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