Former Texas Police Officer Acquitted in 2020 Shooting Death of Black Man

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/us/jonathan-price-murder-officer-acquitted-texas.html
https://archive.ph/5pNxM

Former Texas Police Officer Acquitted in 2020 Shooting Death of Black Man
Officer Shaun Lucas, who is white, shot 31-year-old Jonathan Price four times. After the encounter, he was fired.
By Neelam Bohra
Sept. 25, 2022, 7:16 p.m. ET

A white police officer who shot and killed a 31-year-old Black man in Texas two years ago and whose response was deemed “not objectively reasonable” by a preliminary investigation was acquitted of murder by a jury on Thursday.

The officer, Shaun Lucas, shot the man, Jonathan Price, four times in the torso on Oct. 3, 2020, after responding to reports of a fight at a gas station in Wolfe City, a small town northeast of Dallas. Mr. Price had tried to break up the quarrel, his lawyer said.

The officer arrived after the fight and tried to detain Mr. Price after he came to believe Mr. Price might have been involved in the altercation, according to the authorities. When Mr. Price told the officer he would not be detained, Mr. Lucas tried to use a Taser on Mr. Price, who reached out and grabbed the Taser, according to an initial affidavit. Mr. Price’s lawyer said he was only extending his hand.

Mr. Lucas then pulled out his gun and shot him, the affidavit said. Mr. Price died shortly after being taken to Hunt Regional Hospital. He had not been armed.

[walkingman]

1. How can anyone trust cops? It happens over and over.

[dalton99a]

2. Or a rural white jury

[yankee87]

3. Hard to believe cops

I grew up with my dad having a cops/fireman bar in the Bronx. Also have family and friends who are or were police officers. Now with all the videos of cops lying, and getting away with a, I don’t take their word anymore.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Murder. All white jury.

[uponit7771]

5. Unjustified use of force but gets aquited?!?!