“Many of us are just saddened and angered by the continued unnecessary loss of Black lives at the hands of police,” Dunbar said. “And we want to know how many times do police officers have to get it wrong before they do something collectively to get it right?...
The service did not immediately provide further details about who was responsible for the airman’s death. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is investigating the incident with the FBI and the Albuquerque Police Department. There’s no current threat to the public, the base said in i...
The service did not immediately provide further details about who was responsible for the airman’s death. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is investigating the incident with the FBI and the Albuquerque Police Department. There’s no current threat to the public, the base said in...
The names of the airmen who were shot were not immediately released. FBI investigators were at the scene being helped by Albuquerque police, a city police spokesperson said.
Fortson’s death recalls other Black people killed in recent years by police in their homes. In 2018, a white Dallas police officer fatally shot Botham Jean, who was unarmed, after mistaking his apartment for her own. Amber Guyger, the former officer, wa...
"The circumstances surrounding Roger's death raise serious questions that demand immediate answers from authorities, especially considering the alarming witness statement that the police entered the wrong apartment," Crump said in the statement.
MORE: '6 shots in the back': Murder trial opens in police shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Fortson family, said at Monday's press conference that the deputy went to the wrong apartment. ...
In police radio traffic that lawyer Ben Crump played at a news conference surrounded by Fortson’s family, a dispatcher said all they knew about the disturbance was “fourth-party information.” “Uh, don’t have any further other than a male and female,” the dispatcher told officers. ...
STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson said Thursday that police radio traffic and the body camera footage of the Florida sheriff’s deputy who killed the Black U.S. Air Force airman reinforce their assertion that the deputy...
A sweep of the home did not find another person in the apartment besides Fortson, police said. In the body camera video, a woman, presumed to be a building manager, explains to the officer that someone in the building notified her of the disturbance and that she called...