SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (AP) — Body camera footage and 911 audio released late Friday appeared to show that a Virginia deputy mistook a cordless house phone held by a Black man for a gun before the deputy shot him repeatedly.
Family members said Isaiah Brown, 32, was in intensive care with 10 bullet wounds following the shooting outside a home in Spotsylvania County early Wednesday, WRC-TV reported.
“It is evident that the tragic shooting of Isaiah Brown was completely avoidable,” Brown’s attorney David Haynes said in a statement Friday.
The body camera video shows the deputy arriving at the scene and yelling at Brown to show his hands. The deputy then yells, “drop the gun,” multiple times and appears to say over his radio, “he’s got a gun to his head.” The deputy then yells, “stop walking towards me, stop walking towards me” and “stop, stop” before firing at least seven shots.
The 911 audio shows Brown was on the phone with a dispatcher at the time the deputy arrived. The dispatcher is heard telling Brown to “hold your hands up” as the sirens draw near.
“The deputy in question made multiple, basic policing errors and violated established protocols. The deputy was situated nearly 50 feet from Isaiah, was never threatened and should not have discharged his weapon,” Haynes said.
Who told American cops that you need to see the gun (in the dark) before getting shot (dead)? Also if you are confronting anyone and they start walking towards you, why should you ask them to stop (twice?!) I think someone has misled these cops that this world is a playground or something.
Dead right. Stupidity and stubborness at work. It doesn’t take much to piece together this incident. Tyrone was holding a cordless house phone (the handset actually, something like this).
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Why would you refuse to drop it after you are told to, then keep approaching the armed cop telling you so?!
Simiyu bwana, kwani hawa watu shida yao ni nini? Granted, I know all that history of racial oppression and all, but some common sense also seems to be lacking in a lot of these shooting incidents. In a country where a cop is available at your service within 3-5 mins no one should be that ignorant at the sight of one, so that the only reaction they have if stopped is one of shock? I have problems accepting that.
I think these mofos are just suicidal, and what a better way to go than being shot by a white cop. Bonobos will hold a vigil 4 u and hell yes, with a good lawyer your family might milk a few mirrions 4rm the government.
Shida ni hawa ma blacks always putting a fight while being questioned by police. What if they complied then launch a complain later. You are still better off than being dead
