A Floridasheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground.
Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment.
Body camera video shows that when the deputy arrived outside Fortson’s door, he stood silently for 20 seconds outside and listened, but no voices inside were heard on his body camera.
A criminal investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is ongoing.
Not going to hold my breath for any actual justice here.
The cop will get off and slither to the department 2 towns over.
As is tradition. How many times must this happen before we start holding cops accountable for their actions? How can you uphold the law while standing on top of it and pissing all over it?
I’m adamant that we should mandate a 4 year law enforcement degree and a certification, issued by an independent community police board.
A thousand times yes. We require those degrees to do so many far less critical jobs. It’s unreal how completely opposite this is for LEOs.
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I never said anything about giving more money to police departments.
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I wasn’t expecting you to revive this discussion, but I’ll still talk about it. I was suggesting that the independent oversight board is funded by diverting police funds. For it to be independent, we’d have to prevent former cops and their families from being on the board. Since the independent board is responsible for issuing the police licenses, that would be pretty easy to track.
For the record, I’m not saying that this is the only solution either. To me, this is a large part of the overall solution for ending police violence. There are a lot of police reforms I want to see, but we have to start somewhere.
It might in this particular case simply because we’re talking about an active duty military man who got murdered.
On the other hand, he was black and this is Florida, so who knows?
Two right wing symbols involved: military and police. Anything can happen here.
Sure but a black man was shot in Florida so I’m not holding out any hope here especially in that racist ass state that let a guy get away with killing a black kid over some skittles.
That’s a lot of moving around. Wonder why the officer didn’t stay with jobs. Of course, I would leave Altus as quickly as I could, too, so can’t blame him for that one.
He probably kept getting fired for murdering Black people. Terribly inconvenient, you know.
Apparently 3 synonyms for “police” still isn’t enough to filter out police violence articles. Adding “sheriff” to the list now. How do you not get tired of this is beyond me…
Don’t get tired, get mad.
Recreational outrage isn’t something I’m interested in taking part at.
