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Policeman who shot him, goes free
RIP,Rumain Brisbon
Apr. 2 2015
Mr. Brisbon’s family — and much of Phoenix’s black community — saw the shooting as a horrifying overreaction to a father of four who was carrying a fast-food dinner. That he could be gunned down at the apartment where family members were waiting seemed to confirm a suspicion that white police officers confronted with black men feel so threatened that they become too quick to shoot.
“This man, no matter what he was before, at that moment he was a father carrying dinner in one hand and reaching for his keys with the other,” the Rev. Jarrett Maupin, a civil rights activist and community leader, said in a telephone interview. “He was unarmed, he did not have a weapon” when he was shot, he added.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/va...n_brisbon_phoenix_police_shooting_unarmed.php
The officer had lost his grip on Brisbon's hand shortly after the two literally stumbled into an apartment when an occupant opened the door. The occupant was later discovered to be Brisbon's girlfriend, who had her 2- and 9-year-old kids in a back bedroom. The object in Brisbon's pocket was a vial of pills.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/04/10_worst_police_brutality_videos_in_arizona.php
RIP,Rumain Brisbon
Apr. 2 2015
Mr. Brisbon’s family — and much of Phoenix’s black community — saw the shooting as a horrifying overreaction to a father of four who was carrying a fast-food dinner. That he could be gunned down at the apartment where family members were waiting seemed to confirm a suspicion that white police officers confronted with black men feel so threatened that they become too quick to shoot.
“This man, no matter what he was before, at that moment he was a father carrying dinner in one hand and reaching for his keys with the other,” the Rev. Jarrett Maupin, a civil rights activist and community leader, said in a telephone interview. “He was unarmed, he did not have a weapon” when he was shot, he added.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/va...n_brisbon_phoenix_police_shooting_unarmed.php
The officer had lost his grip on Brisbon's hand shortly after the two literally stumbled into an apartment when an occupant opened the door. The occupant was later discovered to be Brisbon's girlfriend, who had her 2- and 9-year-old kids in a back bedroom. The object in Brisbon's pocket was a vial of pills.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/04/10_worst_police_brutality_videos_in_arizona.php