More than three months after a U.S. Air Force airman from metro Atlanta was gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy, his family and their lawyer are demanding that prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against the former lawman.
At a Friday news conference, civil rights attorney Ben Crump questioned why the investigation has taken so long, noting that the shooting of Senior Airman Roger Fortson was captured on the deputy’s body camera video.
He said that “for Black people in America, when they delay, delay, delay, that tells us they’re trying to sweep it under the rug.”
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