Black man killed by cop was shot in back, exam finds
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A forensic examination shows a black man was shot three times in the back side of his body when an Alabama police officer mistook him for the shooter after gunfire erupted at a crowded shopping mall, the man’s family said Monday.
The results of a report commissioned by the family are “devastating” to relatives of Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr., their lawyer, Benjamin Crump, said at a news conference.
Emantic Bradford Sr. angrily jabbed his finger at the TV cameras as he addressed the unnamed officer, saying: “You’re a coward!”
The officer in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover should be charged with homicide, Bradford said, “because this is murder.”
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