Grand Juryin Atlanta finds agsinst the officer!
After watching dash-cam videos of an incident in which an Atlanta police officer shoots a man in a passing car, a Fulton County grand jury last week did something that grand juries rarely do in Georgia: it indicted a cop for murder in the death of an unarmed civilian.
The videos were so persuasive that the 23-member grand jury took little time to vote for the murder indictment, according to one of the 23. Grand Juror No. 7 said the footage, which has not been released to the public, showed that Officer James R. Burns did not appear to be in danger when he left his patrol car and fired a single shot at Deravis Caine Rogers.
Burns, 34, had told police internal affairs investigators that he believed Rogers, 22, was trying to kill him with his car.
“He clearly lied and had there not been any cameras in the car he possibly would have gotten away with it,” said Grand Juror No. 7, who asked not to be identified by name. “When he got out of the car the gun was drawn and within four seconds he fired off a shot into a car and he didn’t know exactly who or what he was shooting.”
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/a-cop-a-video-a-civilian-shot-in-the-head/nsRHR/?ecmp=newspaper_email##
It's a long article but gives quite a lot of info. I posted it because I felt you'd all like to know that at least THIS TIME the cop didn't het away with murder, at least no yet.
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