Officer Who Killed Arkansas Teen Hunter Brittain Charged With Manslaughter

[Jilly_in_VA]

In June, at 3 a.m. on a dark stretch of a highway in rural Arkansas, 17-year-old Hunter Brittain was shot and killed by a sergeant from the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office.

The white teen’s death prompted protests in a region of the state not known for speaking out against police violence. It also attracted the attention of Black civil rights leaders like attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Brittain’s family, and has stood alongside them as they’ve called for justice.

On Friday, Jeff Phillips, a special prosecutor assigned to the case, announced that Michael Davis, the sergeant who shot Brittain, will be charged with manslaughter for “recklessly” shooting at Brittain.

According to an affidavit read by Phillips at a press conference, Brittain was test-driving a pickup truck with his cousin that the two spent the night tinkering on at a local repair shop. The car, which had transmission issues, began smoking and was pulled over by Davis as it neared the repair shop

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I think it should be second degree murder, but at least it's something

[Nevilledog]

1. I agree with you on the charges.

[marble falls]

2. It's cop mentality: everyone is a criminal, everyone has just broken some law or another.

[exboyfil]

3. The jury should make an adverse inference for the trooper's failure

to turn on his bodycam. It used to be that even with other witnesses like his passenger, the trooper's version of events was the "truth". He had an opportunity to document his own behavior, and he choose not to do it. I would give more weight to the passenger's description of events.

[Demovictory9]

4. Finally

[tulipsandroses]

5. This many bad apples means the farm is rotten

It’s about time they start paying for their shoot first, ask questions later mentality