Unarmed Black Man Shot In Florida

[Bay Area]

Not sure if this has been posted..

This weekend, deputies from Escambia County, Florida shot an unarmed man who went to grab cigarettes from the car parked in the driveway of his mother’s home. A neighbor called police at 2 a.m. because he suspected 60-year-old Roy Middleton was stealing the car. Things quickly escalated when two deputies arrived and ordered Middleton to “get your hands where I can see them,” the Pensacola News Journal reports:[Middleton] said he initially thought it was a neighbor joking with him, but when he turned his head he saw deputies standing halfway down his driveway.

He said he backed out of the vehicle with his hands raised, but when he turned to face the deputies, they immediately opened fire.

“It was like a firing squad,” he said. “Bullets were flying everywhere.”

The deputies reportedly fired about seven shots at the unarmed man; Middleton was shot in the leg, and another five bullet holes hit the car and the side of house.

With the Trayvon Martin case still a fresh memory for another Florida county, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney’s office are now investigating the incident. For now, the involved officers are on paid administrative leave.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...-his-mothers-home-it-was-like-a-firing-squad/

 

[Fmju]

Is he ok?

 

[Bay Area]

Is he ok?

Yeah luckily he survived. Dude is 60 years old and still has to worry about police brutality, its hard being black in this country smh.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Thank God he lived now he can have those trigger happy cops jobs.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

smh, if only Pac were around at the time.

 

[Quarterback]

Was it Ice-T or NWA who told us all to Open Season on 5-0? Am I allowed to say we should do that, or is that against coli rules?

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

smh, if only Pac were around at the time.

Yeh too bad his selfishness got in the way of the movement.

 

[OPTiMO]

Inb4CAC

 

[Mass]

Shoot first (go on paid administrative leave, take a vacation, knock some beers back, make some off key racist jokes and have a ball) and ask questions later.

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Inb4CAC

too late

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Yeh too bad his selfishness got in the way of the movement.

I'm sayin, my man coulda had somebody shooting the cops for him tho.

 

[Da King]

too late

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

How'd he survive that?

I mean those cops are HORRIBLE shots.

I mean damn, shoot to kill if you're gonna pull the goddamn trigger.

 

[DaRealness]

 

[AAKing23]

I really don't even know what is left to be said at this point