Local police in Alabama who responded to a shooting at a mall may have killed an armed black man who was not responsible for the shooting.
According to WBRC, two or more people were involved in an altercation at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., on Thanksgiving. Shots were fired, injuring a 12-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man. Police stated that Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was fleeing the scene and wielding a handgun when he was shot and killed by officers, but investigators said new evidence suggests that Bradford Jr. was not the person who fired the shots that injured bystanders.
Hoover Police, who have relinquished command of the investigation, now under the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, sent out an updated press release, saying that they regret that their original information may have been inaccurate and that Bradford Jr., "did not likely" commit the crime that led to his shooting by police.
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11 comments:
Who is admitting this, certainly not the cops????
He points a gun at the police and gets shot. What difference does it make if he was shooting people prior to this? Riots are coming.
Nobody said he pointed a gun at anyone. It says "weilding" as in having in hand. Likely a ccw holder who didn't want to spend 6 months under intertogation.
interrogation. May add, maybe he was chasing down the perp.
12:50 the police department did admit it.
As a concealed carry holder. One of the first things you are taught is to not interfere in an altercation unless you are in imminent danger yourself. For example if I was to walk into a convenience store and saw a man behind the counter emptying the register and another man lying on the floor shot. I am going to leave the store and call 911 waiting for the police outside with no gun drawn a safe distance away. Should the robber leave the store before police arrive, unless he is a threat to me, I let him go and take note of what he was driving, which way he went, what he was wearing etc. The reason is if I tried to stop him in the store, I probably would have had my gun out, him behind the counter with his hands up. The police arrive and what do they see, exactly what was reported. A man with a gun holding up the store. The moral is, if you are going to run away from a shooting incident, don't do it with your gun drawn.
Are you telling me there where uniformed cops in the mall at the time ?
3:01...I pray that your cowardly dumb ass isn't WATCHING my daughter get beaten to death (because YOU aren't in imminent danger).
The police arrive in 10 minutes to put a sheet over her body and you are safely cowering a "safe distance" away.
A real f'ing hero type you are, huh? And so proud of your self-important cowardice.
If YOU are the type that's getting a concealed carry permit, the rest of us are in deep crap, at least the ones who aren't carrying a pistol.
YOU are a GREAT reason why the rest of us should carry a gun and not believe we need to get another man's permission, or submit to a Nazi interview, give any fingerprints or any of the other BS the Gestapo places on the Constitution.
They didn't write it and THEY don't obey it, but we are supposed to meekly submit to their judgment and rule???
As for the guy who just shot a clerk?? I'm killing him.
You go hide in your car....everything will be all right.
Keep cheering.
I thought another witness surfaced who saw Bradford do the shooting....
7:55 How do you know who did what when you just walked in. That's the problem you want to be judge and jury when you don't even know what happened. Different if the clerk was wounded and needed help, but that's not whats described above.
The scenario presented was "a man behind the counter emptying the register and another man lying on the floor shot".
I don't expect you to be a rocket scientist, but I do expect you to be able to read.
In that scenario, the police would open fire on the man behind the counter RIGHT AWAY. WHO is emptying the register while someone is on the floor bleeding out? The next guy to get shot, that's who....
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