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Tuesday
02Nov

Covington County Police Kill Black Man-

DateTuesday, November 2, 2004 at 03:07PM
  • Citizens believe shooting racially motivated
Authorities in Covington County aren't saying much about a fatal shooting involving a sheriff's deputy. It happened Thursday about noon at a residence on Highway 55, about four miles north of Florala, in the Lockhart community. The Alabama Bureau of Investigation said a Florala man, 47-year-old Aron Shaw, was shot and killed after he got into a fight with a deputy.  Stephanie Green lived in the same neighborhood as Aron Shaw. She says around 11:30 Thursday morning, she heard someone screaming for help saying, "They are going to kill me." Green says that's when police arrested Aron Shaw. A little while later, he was found shot to death nearly 4 miles outside of Florala. Green says she's not surprised considering what she says she saw happened during the arrest. "I saw someone stomp him and he slammed his head it the car 5 times. You could hear it,"   "It's just sad," said Sylvia Wallace, a woman who lived not far from Shaw. "He was found on the ground dead. An officer shot him." Shaw allegedly kicked the glass out of a patrol car after being apprehended by law enforcement, and subsequently obtained the official's tazer gun and repeatedly shocked the officer. Linda Carson claims to have been an eye witness to an incident involving Shaw and police officers the day he was shot to death. "They were beating him," Carson said. "I'm talking beating this man. I backed up to tell these other guys to come and look at what was going on. "I said, 'I've got to go get this man some help,' so I called the mayor's office and said, 'Somebody needs to get up there and stop them from beating that man up there.' [more] and [more] and [more] and [more]
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I wanna go shuck corn in sit on my poch in shoot at litta fury crittas wit my shot gun

March 9, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterCleutus
So...What do we do???
We are slowly becoming a POLICE state.

Police seem to NEVER be wrong. There are procedures they are SUPPOSED to FOLLOW...These would protect not only the mentally ill...but also ALL of us!!!

So who, where or WHEN are the people who are ready to stand up and say ...ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!

I, for one am ready!!!!
August 18, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterTalitha

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