A civil rights attorney says deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S.

Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday.

Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      19·
      6 months ago

      Of course. Right wingers never feel bound by their own rules. Rules are just a tool for oppressing the outgroup.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Uh yeah, the second amendment says nothing about tyrants. I mean the entire thing is like one sentence dude come on.

      The 2A is not, and never has been, about protecting the US from tyrannical leaders. That is not what a well-regulated militia was for.