BamaD
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ORIGINAL: JVoV http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-doj-zachary-hammond-20150813-story.html quote:
Hammond's death bears similarities to fatal police shootings of unarmed black men in the last year but has not sparked the kind of outcry that surrounded those killings. Hammond was driving through a Hardee's parking lot when police, who were targeting his 23-year-old passenger as part of a marijuana sting, approached his vehicle, according to Eric Bland, the Hammond family's attorney. When the officer approached, Hammond moved to put his car in park, reaching to the floor where the vehicle's gear shift was located. At that point, Bland said, someone shouted that Hammond had a gun. Lt. Mark Tiller shot Hammond twice, and the 19-year-old died a short time later. Tiller told police he shot Hammond because the man attempted to ram him with his vehicle. An autopsy conducted at the request of Hammond's family suggested Hammond was shot from the side The DOJ and FBI have begun investigating. There is only that kind of outcry if the dead person is black. I guess the FBI has gotten into the nail a cop feeding frenzy.
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