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Deputies in Florida's Escambia County have some explaining to do after they allegedly shot an unarmed man for grabbing a box of cigarettes out of his own car outside his own house.
Roy Middleton was returning home from work early Saturday morning, when he stopped by the car he and his mother share to grab some cigarettes.
A neighbor who didn't recognize Middleton phoned the local sheriff's office to report a possible burglary.
Deputies dispatched to the scene found Middleton inside the vehicle and ordered him to back away with his hands in the air. As he was doing so, Middleton says he turned to face the deputies.
"It was like a firing squad," he later recalled from his hospital bed. "Bullets were flying everywhere."
All told, deputies fired seven shots, five of which struck the car and the side of Middleton's house, where his elderly mother Ceola Walker was sleeping.
At least one of the bullets hit Middleton's leg.
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malaise
(269,054 posts)It's that simple. How dare he enter his own car outside his own house.
Fuck the fucking stupid neighbor and the even more stupid cops. Cigarettes do kill.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)Great work by the cops though in getting their man, and car....and house
great shots
malaise
(269,054 posts)This shit is getting worse.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)thanks to these low IQ nincompoops.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Roy Middleton
And some claim we have a color blind society. Readers, ask yourselves if a young, pretty blond woman doing the exact same thing would have been shot.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Almost all shootings are found to be within policy. And the cops get free paid vacations in the meantime.
Gee, I wonder why they don't hesitate to shoot...
Logical
(22,457 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)Either these people are horrible shots and shouldn't be allowed to hold firearms, or Marisa ALexander should get better consideration for trying not to hit a person and actually missing!