POLICE BRUTALITY CASES: WALTER SCOTT MURDER & MORE

[HairOfTheDog]

Follow up on the Corey Jones Murder
Looks like a trial
Hope they bury this asshole
Stand Your Ground needs to be fixed, not deleted

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/edit...story.html

I was glad to read that former police officer Raja (left) was found guilty of manslaughter in Florida today.  

Back in 2015, Raja was in plain clothes and did not put on a police vest before he approached musician and building inspector Corey Jones' stranded van, which Raja had been advised to do.

Raja also failed to identify himself as a police officer when he approached Jones (right) in the wee hours and demanded that Jones (who was legally carrying a concealed weapon) 'put up his fucking hands'.  

Then, as in so many of these cases, officer Raja lied to investigators about the circumstances of the encounter before he realized it had been caught on audio because Jones was on the line with a tow truck company when Raja shot him three times. 

The jury agreed with the prosecutors -- Raja's negligence led to Corey Jones' death and anybody in Corey's position would have assumed he was about to be robbed or carjacked.

Full story and audio transcript:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...trial.html