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.
Is the Air Force at least going to care about this? When is this shit going to be stopped?
They didn’t care about him when he was alive.
They may care about the operational loss, but they certainly wont bring any kind of hammer down on the local PD.
I’m honestly curious about a source for your perspective on the first sentence. I’ve seen firsthand where the USAF negotiated on an international level for enlisted Airmen over a DUI. This particular case was in Japan and while the Airman had to serve his term as dictated by the Japanese courts, he was aloud to do so in a US Military facility, which was a significantly higher QOL for that Airman.
I couldn’t find an article while looking for a minute, but it’s been quite a few years. I also promise that skin tone was not a distinguishing factor.
At the end of the day, though, I would simply like information on your perspective, not to convince you to change.
Own country vs other countries. Doesn’t matter what a US soldier did in other countries, if it can be swept under the rug, it will. Own country, they don’t give a shit.
Did someone edit a comment? Or the post itself? Where does Japan come into an article about an airman killed by police in Florida?EDIT: I put the em-PHASIS on the wrong syl-LABLE when reading the comment. Never mind.
It is an anecdote about the Air Force going to bat for one of its members, in a much less desirable scenario.
Thanks. I was misinterpreting the previous comment.
You saw some colonels nephew get out of a DUI and that makes u think the us military has integrity???
Lmfao. They don’t hire the brightest do they?
Sooo when are we going to stop bursting into any apartments?
Never?
It’s not fair of you to expect our cops to be compitent! It’s against their nature
compitent
Found the cop
Doing quite well for a small penguin, tho.
If this man gunned them down as they came in, it would have been covered by his rights as his life was endangered. It would never go that way on court. That’s when things will change though, when people start killing armed people on their property under their castle/stand your ground laws. If 30 cops in a small enough area suddenly get themselves killed they will use their union to fight for disarming civilians and taking away the 2nd amendment rights/self defense laws, or the judges will stop signing warrants once they start getting sued/disbarred for allowing the cops to enter a dangerous situation they shouldn’t have. Punish the police and the judges, and change might occur. So… never
I remember a similar case where the police didn’t announce themselves and were trying to claim qualified immunity in front of a panel of judges. One of the judges said that he would have shot at them too.
- I AM NOT ADVOCATING VIOLENCE*
It is seeming more and more every day that the only way this situation is going to change is if more people start shooting police that are trespassing on their property. It’s become readily apparent that non-violent systems intended to prevent this kind of behavior do not work.
And once again we’re given the name of the victim but not the murderer. ACAB
Police officers “fatally shoot”
People of color “accidentally murder”
Reminds me back when Hurricane Katrina happened and the news reported a scene of black people in New Orleans breaking into a supermarket as looting and a scene of white people doing the same thing as “finding food.”
wait what? the cops were addressing a noise complaint and that, somehow, gave them permission to break into someone’s home? (never mind they got the wrong home to begin with)
You would think they would realize it was the wrong house when they showed up and it was quiet
the cops were addressing a noise complaint
Someone heard another acorn drop.
Are the cops on vacation yet
No. They have to take a few days off first.
There will be an investigation by other pigs, therefore they will find him innocent & he will get a paid vacation by the tax payers probably promoted.
The Boot lick The Blue crowd never have nothing to say about Police abuse.
ACAB
