01-07-2016, 03:51 PM
Florida Police Officer Charged with Manslaughter
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Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Peter Peraza ^, 37, entered a not guilty plea today. He is charged with manslaughter. Peraza shot Jermaine McBean to death as he walked home with an unloaded air rifle, and the PD said there was no reason to believe McBean did not hear their orders to drop the weapon.
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But a newly emerged photo that shows headphones in McBean's ears immediately after the 2013 shooting raises questions about the police version of events, including why the white earbuds were later found stuffed in the dead computer expert's pocket.
The witness who took the photo is a nurse who says she pointed out the earbuds to police at the scene, after they rebuffed her offer to provide first aid to the dying man.
Another witness, Michael Russell McCarthy, 58, told NBC News that McBean had the Winchester Model 1000 Air Rifle balanced on his shoulders behind his neck, with his hand over both ends, and was turning around to face police when one officer began shooting.
"He [McBean] couldn't have fired that gun from the position he was in. There was no possible way of firing it and at the same time hitting something," McCarthy said. "I kind of blame myself, because if I hadn't called it might not have happened."
Jermaine McBean died shortly after he was fatally shot by police in Oakland Park, Fla., on July 31, 2013.
"I was highly upset," McBean's mother, Jennifer Young, said of the moment she learned about the photo. "I said, 'They lied to me. What else have they lied about?'" ""He couldn't have fired that gun from the position he was in.""
Stories:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/phot...an-n366386
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-depu...ing-death/
Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Peter Peraza ^, 37, entered a not guilty plea today. He is charged with manslaughter. Peraza shot Jermaine McBean to death as he walked home with an unloaded air rifle, and the PD said there was no reason to believe McBean did not hear their orders to drop the weapon.
But a newly emerged photo that shows headphones in McBean's ears immediately after the 2013 shooting raises questions about the police version of events, including why the white earbuds were later found stuffed in the dead computer expert's pocket.
The witness who took the photo is a nurse who says she pointed out the earbuds to police at the scene, after they rebuffed her offer to provide first aid to the dying man.
Another witness, Michael Russell McCarthy, 58, told NBC News that McBean had the Winchester Model 1000 Air Rifle balanced on his shoulders behind his neck, with his hand over both ends, and was turning around to face police when one officer began shooting.
"He [McBean] couldn't have fired that gun from the position he was in. There was no possible way of firing it and at the same time hitting something," McCarthy said. "I kind of blame myself, because if I hadn't called it might not have happened."
Jermaine McBean died shortly after he was fatally shot by police in Oakland Park, Fla., on July 31, 2013.
"I was highly upset," McBean's mother, Jennifer Young, said of the moment she learned about the photo. "I said, 'They lied to me. What else have they lied about?'" ""He couldn't have fired that gun from the position he was in.""
Stories:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/phot...an-n366386
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-depu...ing-death/