“I don’t have a gun,” McClain tells the officers in the video. The officer asks McClain how many times he was shot and he says twice. “I am passing out,” McClain said in the video. He then moves in to detain and treat McClain. The officer is heard conferring with another officer about a handgun they believe McClain had tossed. McClain’s white shirt is bloody on his right back quarter. Powers, a cook for a catering company, was found dead on a sidewalk outside a church. In one video, the officer can be seen approaching McClain after the shooting with his gun drawn. Brian 'Egypt' Powers, 43, a Black transgender man, was shot to death in Akron, Ohio, on July 13. Police have leads in murder case of five-year-old girl who was shot dead while sitting on her grandfathers lap. Pasadena City Councilman Tyrone Hampton has called for the officer who shot McClain to be fired.īen Crump, a nationally renowned civil rights attorney representing some members of McClain’s family, said the video of the shooting “underscores the fact that there seems to be a propensity for police in America to shoot Black men in the back - disproportionately to anything we’ve seen them do to our white brothers and sisters.” The county sheriff said Kevin Peterson Jr. She noted that the officer who recovered the handgun was among the last to arrive at the scene, and that raises questions. Police officers in southwest Washington fatally shot a 21-year-old Black man Thursday evening in a bank parking lot. Harper said McClain was holding on to his belt buckle. When the videos were released, Pasadena Police Chief John Perez said he saw a gun in McClain’s left hand as he ran and that forensics tests of the weapon recovered nearby showed McClain’s DNA present on it. She said police need to stop handcuffing mortally wounded suspects, stop shooting fleeing people in the back, increase the retroactive recording time for body cameras from 30 seconds to two minutes, and stop pulling over motorists for minor infractions. State of Georgia government websites and email systems use or ga.gov at the end of the address. He died a few hours later at Pasadena Huntington Memorial Hospital.Ĭaree Harper, who represented some of the McClain family members, said they hoped citizens of Pasadena would demand that their police department commit to reforms to avoid a repeat of the shooting of McClain. Local, state, and federal government websites often end in. Arizona cop is fired and faces criminal probe after he fatally shot motorized wheelchair man in back nine times during 'armed robbery' Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of 'white.
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their familys cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence. With Adam Clark, Malcolm Goodwin, Michael Hyatt, Malcolm David Kelley.
McClain was shot twice, including once through his right lung. Mississippi Damned: Directed by Tina Mabry.
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