The U.S. media has again exposed the unprovoked police shooting of an African-American citizen.
On December 4, Casey Goodson, a 23-year-old African-American man in Ohio, died after being shot by police, NPR reported locally on December 7.
It is believed that police were conducting a manhunt at the time of the incident, but Goodson was not the target of the police.
Police said the officers fired because Goodson was “brandishing a handgun” and posed a threat to the safety of officers at the scene. At the scene of the shooting, police also found the handgun in Goodson’s possession.
But according to NPR, the victim’s family has a different version of events.
What police call a “handgun” is just a Subway sandwich.
The Goodson family’s attorney, Walton Brown, said Goodson had a license to carry a gun. The Goodson family said there were no weapons around them when they arrived at the scene and that he had been shot three times in the back.
Local police said the officers on the scene were not wearing law enforcement recorders, and a local investigation into the incident is underway. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and others are demanding justice for Goodson, and that the “shoot first, warn later” approach of the U.S. police to law enforcement “must stop.
It is understood that this case is not an isolated one. The U.S. media revealed that this year alone, there are at least 16 African-American people in the United States were shot by police in the course of law enforcement, and these victims were shot without holding any assault weapons.
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