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Disturbing new footage revealed Monday that Banko Brown, the suspected shoplifter fatally shot by a Walgreens security guard in San Francisco last month, was walking backwards out of the store when a single shot was fired into his chest.
Prosecutors released the graphic clip along with an announcement Monday that Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, 33, wont face criminal charges in the death of Brown, a 24-year-old Black man.
The security footage showed Brown and Anthony fighting near the stores entrance, with the security guard repeatedly hitting Brown before placing him in a headlock and pinning him to the ground. Anthony drew his gun as they broke apart, later telling cops he did so because Brown threatened to stab him, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins office wrote in a lengthy report on Monday.
Brown managed to get up, grab a bag of what prosecutors described as stolen merchandise, and walk backwards through the entrance while making a brief, sudden movement at Anthony. Less than two seconds later, Anthony fired a single shot from his handgun, and Brown collapsed to the sidewalk outside.
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Seems as if the trump rhetoric is transferring into open season on minorities.
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,211 posts)MichMan
(11,790 posts)Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)I don't think the black security guard shot him because of his skin color.
The threats to stab him and sudden movement in his direction was likely the source of the guard's fear of grave bodily harm.
Tickle
(2,466 posts)after reading your post. Initially I thought this thread was racial but both people look AA to me.
JI7
(89,182 posts)is there video of this ?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)pecosbob
(7,511 posts)I receive death threats fairly often. Last time was less than a week ago. I do not possess any firearms but do carry a knife to protect myself in a worst-case scenario. This is prohibited by company policy and would result in my dismissal if I ever had to wield it in the store camera's view. Over the last few years I have been assaulted multiple times including having my skull cracked open by a drunk on Christmas Eve when I worked for another corporation a few years ago...and was fired by my employer the next day. Company lawyers claimed that I did not do enough to disengage with the guy pounding on my head with a baseball bat.
Sometimes shit is a lot more real on the ground level than it appears from this forum.
SYFROYH
(34,127 posts)I'm not sure that Banko Brown was actually retreating.
YMMV