Florida Deputies Who Fatally Shot U.S. Airman Burst Into Wrong Apartment, Attorney Says
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Keep playing with me and see if you dont get exposed again even worse than the last time. I know your government name too, Cammy aka @BaggerofTea.you playing with the wrong person, kid. Take that shyt bullshyt back to Virginia and behave yourself. Youre in my house as far as Im concerned.
I know how much of a lying narcissistic attention whore you are too. Cosplaying like Drake about you being from my area. fukk outta here. Those roids you taking, ketamine you abusing and whoever you got behind arent going save you. Keeping thinking that I wont run up on you in real life and call you out in front everybody to make sure you dont confuse things. You a damn junkie too. Keep playing with me.i know your ass would have something in common with that a$$hole like those that BLM trio or cornell west vp. Agent ass.
You are a gay anti black melanted individual.
Be gone demon, the homosexuality is tolerable but anti black?
Brother I explore you to look into assisted euthanasia.
You talking about yourself.
you a big ball of confusion that makes me realize that Im not as bad as Id like to believe if people like you actually exist in which you do. im good, kid. you can the last word since you love the attention.
richaveli83
Veteran
I get your putrage, but what is Joe Biden gonna do? That's for the other branches of government. Congress has been too chicken shyt for police reform. Florida ain't gonna do shyt about police reform before the feds do.
This was the young Brother I was referring to.A civil rights attorney says deputies burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone.
DAVID FISCHER
May 8, 2024, 07:17 PM EDT
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This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson in a Dec. 24, 2019, photo. The Air Force says the airman supporting its Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., was shot and killed on May 3, 2024, during an incident involving the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. (U.S. Air Force via AP)
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MIAMI (AP) — 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.
According to Crump, the woman, whom Crump didn’t identify, said Fortson was alone in his apartment when he heard a knock at the door. He asked who was there but didn’t get a response. A few minutes later, Fortson heard a louder knock but didn’t see anyone when he looked through the peephole, Crump said, citing the woman’s account.
The woman said Fortson was concerned and went to retrieve his gun, which Crump said was legally owned.
As Fortson walked back through his living room, deputies burst through the door, saw that Fortson was armed and shot him six times, according to Crump’s statement. The woman said Fortson was on the ground, saying, “I can’t breathe,” after he was shot, Crump said
Fortson died at a hospital, officials said. The deputy involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
The woman said Fortson wasn’t causing a disturbance during their Facetime call and believes that the deputies must have had the wrong apartment, Crump’s statement said.
“The circumstances surrounding Roger’s death raise serious questions that demand immediate answers from authorities, especially considering the alarming witness statement that the police entered the wrong apartment,” Crump said in the statement.
“We are calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger’s death and the immediate release of body cam video to the family,” Crump said. “His family and the public deserve to know what occurred in the moments leading up to this tragedy.”
Crump is a nationally known attorney based in Tallahassee, Florida. He has been involved in multiple high-profile law enforcement shooting cases involving Black people, including those of Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols and George Floyd.
Crump and Fortson’s family plan to speak at a news conference in Fort Walton Beach on Thursday morning.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement last week that a deputy responding to a call of a disturbance in progress at the apartment complex reacted in self-defense after encountering an armed man. The office did not offer details on what kind of disturbance deputies were responding to or who called them.
The sheriff’s office also declined to immediately identify the responding deputies or their races. The office did not respond to an email or phone message on Wednesday. Officials said earlier this week that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the local State Attorney’s Office will investigate the shooting.
FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it is highly unlikely the agency will have any further comment until the investigation is complete.
Fortson was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron as a special missions aviator, where one of his roles as a member of the squadron’s AC-130J Ghostrider aircrew was to load the gunship’s 30mm and 105mm cannons during missions.
The sheriff’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email or voicemail seeking comment Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Fort Walton Beach is between Panama City Beach and Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle.
Florida Deputies Who Fatally Shot U.S. Airman Burst Into Wrong Apartment, Attorney Says
A civil rights attorney says deputies burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone.www.huffpost.com
Died on a no knock raid.
Yep no win situation. Had the Brother won he'd be on death row for killing a cop.
Police recruits are declining every month. They're lowering requirements across the country to attract more applicants. It's a shytty spiral.
If you're gonna bring the President into it how much you wanna bet Mr. Support our Troops Trump won't say a word about this.
That ain't it. They treat white people with kid gloves when it's a Black person they get all super aggresive.
Remember that Nut Race Solider who opened fire because a Nut landed on the car and he assumed that the suspect was shooting at him.
Fired all those shots and (thankfully) missed.
It's tied to the lower requirements. I work in crime prevention unit for a DA. I pass the musty recruits every morning. They're undisciplined apes giving each other noogies every morning while wearing "Fight Wokism" shirts. Uneducated, low IQ, can't get smart.
They were supposed to suspend No knock raids unless someone was in danger on the inside.
When they gay dude shot out the club literally the cops waited for backup.
When the Hebrew Isrealite sister decided she wasn't gonna let them in armed with a shotgun the cops waited her out and went in when she was distracted.
Cops are usually p*ssy when a Black person has the gun.
It's a certain kind of dude who openly joins the cops especially in a big city department.
I knew an weird gung ho officer who did nothing in the miltary join the Baltimore Police Department and I had a Solider from Hartford County ( he was literally a farmboy) who decided to join the Baltmore PD.
I'm not saying you're wrong but it's people with a certain mentality who they accept. I mean if they just reexamined why someone from an all white super republican district would want to work in a mostly Black super liberal area especially when despite lowered standards they still managed keep Black people off the force.
I took the test for MPD (DC) and passed both the written and physical but couldn't join the academy because as a wounded warrior I was a Liability.
But MPD like all agencies are filled with combat Vets. I took the test at the urging of a friend why they don't specifically recruit Black Military Vets?
VertigoKnight
Veteran
I wish I didn't watch that video.
These POS cops got no self control.
These POS cops got no self control.
