Atlanta Police Division officers have been accused of quite a few questionable shootings lately together with the controversial capturing of Rayshard Brooks through the summer season of social justice in June 2020. Sadly, not a lot has modified since then and the native information is reporting one other police killing that seems doubtful at greatest.
In line with 11Alive, the case of the deadly October 11 capturing of 44-year-old Linton Blackwell, professionally often known as rapper B-Inexperienced, by an off-duty APD officer outdoors of a bar has a chilling replace that has angered the sufferer’s household, associates, and the group at massive.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s post-mortem exhibits that Blackwell had 17 gunshot wounds that entered his again, unequivocal proof that he was dealing with away from the off-duty officer who gunned him down. The officer in query, Gerald Walker, was working a aspect gig when he was requested to help with an incident at 5 Paces Inn. Blackwell was concerned within the unspecified incident, however was strolling again to his automotive away from the bar when Walker is claimed to have adopted him and opened fireplace.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says that Walker witnessed Blackwell place an unidentified object “within the small of his again” moments previous to the capturing. If that object was a firearm, and it was within the small of his again, then Blackwell was not a menace to Walker or anybody else on the time he was killed, a degree that Blackwell’s cousin Jimmy Hill requested Capital B Information:
“They are saying he caught [something] in his again. So if he caught it in his again, why did you shoot him that many instances? Why did you even shoot him if nothing was geared toward you?” Hill questioned.
Hopefully, the investigation yields sufficient data that the district lawyer asks the identical query to a grand jury.
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