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.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
    42·
    6 months ago

    The office did not offer details on what kind of disturbance deputies were responding to or who called them.

    Sooo… noise complaint then? They died because a deputy basically tricked them in to making themselves a threat.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      58·
      6 months ago

      I keep repeating this every fucking time I read a story like this. IF THE POLICE CAN KILL YOU FOR JUST HAVING A GUN ON YOUR PERSON. THEN WE DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO OWN GUNS THAT THE SECOND ADMEMENIT SAYS WE DO.

      This happens all the fucking time and cops get away with these killings. So we are in a police state.

      We need to be allowed to defend ourselves even against the police. If they break into the wrong house ( which they shouldn’t be allowed to do without a fucking warrant) then we need to be allowed to shoot those fucking cops.

      Then maybe they would take time to make sure they were at the right place.

      ACAB.