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Unarmed Arizona Man Shot & Paralyzed By Police Officer Wants Charges Dropped Against Him

Unarmed Man Paralyzed By Police Wants Charges Dropped A black man who was unarmed when a police officer shot and injured him causing paralysis wants all charges dropped against him. Edward Brown of Phoneix, Arizona says he was racially profiled and the victim of brutality after he was shot in the back. According to ABC 15, on August 5 police responded to a suspicious call about “possible drug activity” in an alley and Brown ran away because of a felony warrant. A chase ensued and an officer claims that he caught Brown trying to hop a fence before he began to walk towards him and then “charged at him.” The officer alleges that Brown made a “swipe for his gun to grab it,” and claims he “felt the tip of his gun get grazed.” Brown says, however, that’s untrue and is using the bullet that was lodged into his back as proof. “If Edward had been trying to take a gun away from the police officer, as has been alleged, as it has come from the police department, he would’ve been shot in the front, not in the back,” said Brown’s lawyer. When Brown was questioned by police at the hospital, he said his back was toward the officer. His family has since launched a GoFundMe to help with legal fees as he fights the case and sues the department. Click HERE to see it.

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SMH: 66-Year-Old Latino Woman Shot Dead By NYPD Inside Her Own Home

NYPD Guns Down 66-Year-Old Mentally Ill Woman An NYPD police sergeant fatally shot a 66-year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia inside her own Bronx home when she charged at him with a baseball bat on Tuesday evening. According to NBCNY , officers were on the scene in response to a neighbor’s 911 complaint about the woman, who the community has long known to suffer from mental issues. A uniformed sergeant encountered the woman inside her 7th floor apartment, where she was reportedly naked and armed with scissors. The officer convinced her to put the scissors down…but the moment she did, he reports that she grabbed a bat and attempted to swing at him with it. Even though the officer had a stun gun on him, he instead fired two shots from his service gun, striking her twice in the torso. The woman was transported to a nearby medical center, where she later passed away. The NYPD says it’s conducting an investigation into the case, including why the 8-year veteran sergeant chose to shoot the woman with his firearm instead of his stun gun. SMH. We can never understand opting to KILL when you could easily diffuse a situation instead. And that’s only IF she even was swinging a bat around the way they reported… NY1/NBC NY

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