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Alabama’s Cellular Police Division is presently the topic of a federal lawsuit accusing its officers of taking pictures and killing a Black teenager whereas he had his palms up throughout an unauthorized “no-knock” raid. It’s a narrative that shares putting similarities with that of Breonna Taylor, and if what the grievance claims is true, officers must be dealing with greater than a lawsuit — they need to be taking a look at jail time.
In response to the Miami Herald, 16-year-old Randall Adjessom was asleep in his room on Nov. 13, 2023, when a police S.W.A.T. staff “rammed down” the entrance door of his household’s dwelling. Randall reportedly didn’t realize it was the police who had invaded his dwelling, so he grabbed a gun and left his room “to guard his mom, grandmother, aunt, and sisters from the unknown intruders breaching his childhood dwelling,” the grievance says.
From the Herald:
When Adjessom rounded a nook and noticed officers within the hallway, he immediately put his palms up and started to again away, towards his bed room, in response to the grievance.
Then one of many officers shot him 4 occasions, hitting him within the chest and torso, the grievance says.
Police physique digital camera footage, which hasn’t been made public, exhibits Adjessom had his palms raised and that he didn’t pose a risk, in response to his household’s authorized counsel, who has reviewed the footage.
The aim of the raid was a seek for marijuana “purportedly possessed by Randall’s older brother,” who didn’t reside there, the grievance says. The officers didn’t have courtroom authorization to look the house earlier than daybreak, in response to the grievance.
The raid was racially motivated, Grant & Eisenhofer, the regulation agency representing Adjessom’s household, stated in a Dec. 23 information launch.
So, simply to recap: In response to the lawsuit, a S.W.A.T. staff raided a house it didn’t have correct authorization to raid over petty marijuana possession. Throughout the unlawful raid, an officer fired 4 pictures at an adolescent who had his palms raised and was backing away from them as a result of he got here into the room with a gun that was not pointed on the officers, which he solely had as a result of he thought they have been intruders and he had a household to guard. And so as to add insult to all of that harm, the marijuana smoker the cops have been there to arrest didn’t reside within the dwelling.
Once more, this complete story reads like a throwback to Breonna Taylor, who was shot to demise by Louisville, Kentucky, law enforcement officials who have been executing a warrant that was obtained fraudulently. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, stated he didn’t realize it was the police who had invaded their dwelling when he fired a single shot, which the cops responded to by firing a storage of bullets into their house in addition to close by flats, which resulted in Taylor’s demise.
In reality, one other similarity to Taylor’s story is how lengthy it took for officers to tell Randall’s mom that her son was lifeless, in response to the swimsuit, which additionally claims officers uncared for to instantly render medical support to Randall after he was shot.
Extra from the Herald:
“(Physique worn digital camera) reveals that his physique writhed with the ache from his accidents, however Defendant Police Officers didn’t instantly render medical support,” the grievance reads.
The physique digital camera footage captured an officer saying “What are we going to do with this,” referring to Adjessom, in response to the grievance.
As a substitute of offering medical assist, the officers detained Adjessom’s relations in a room on the house’s first flooring and didn’t inform them that the teenager had been shot, the grievance says.
His mom didn’t be taught he was lifeless till hours later when she was being questioned at a police station, the place officers confirmed her a photograph of him lifeless or dying, in response to the grievance.
After Adjessom was left bleeding within the hallway for over 4 minutes, the officers started to render support, the grievance says.
He was taken to a hospital about 40 minutes after he was shot and died there, in response to the grievance, which says the hospital was about 8 minutes away from his dwelling.
It’s virtually as if it was extra essential to the cops to get their tales straight than it was to make sure their sufferer didn’t die.
The grievance, which seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages, accuses the Cellular Police Division of a “systemic sample of utilizing extreme drive in opposition to residents of coloration; specifically, younger Black boys and males.” Officers for each the police division and the town declined to talk on the matter citing pending litigation, the Herald reported.
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