A civil rights attorney says deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S.

Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday.

Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter.

  • @stembolts
    220•5 months ago

    Sure, you are allowed to have a firearm. As long as we (the police) never see you with it, or anything shaped like it, on your person ever, even if you are inside your own apartment. Oh, also don’t be black. Black people all have guns all the time. /s

    That constitutional right doesn’t feel very constitutional when it’s a death sentence to exercise it.

    He’s got a gun! Quick! Murder him as fast as possible!

    But we have the right to have them? Oh wait I get it, you have the right to have a firearm but not the right to be alive at the same time, ahh, now it makes sense. Got me with the loophole, no “right to live while bearing arms” in the constitution, but you can bear arms, just gotta forfeit your right to be alive.

      • Diplomjodler
        19•5 months ago

        Of course. Right wingers never feel bound by their own rules. Rules are just a tool for oppressing the outgroup.

      • proleEnglish
        3•5 months ago

        Uh yeah, the second amendment says nothing about tyrants. I mean the entire thing is like one sentence dude come on.

        The 2A is not, and never has been, about protecting the US from tyrannical leaders. That is not what a well-regulated militia was for.

    • @[email protected]
      6•5 months ago

      A-fuckin-goddamn-men.

      I was literally just coming to write a similar comment.

      So right wingers are you still going to lick those boots or maybe actually give a shit about that 2nd amendment you love to use as a cudgel against “the left?”

    • BolexForSoup
      3•5 months ago

      You will never, ever catch someone on the far right acknowledging this issue.

      I had the police enter my home once unannounced about 10 or 11 years ago. They just started shining flashlight and walking into my apartment and announced themselves when they were already through the threshold. 2am, I’m bleary eyed with my partner there. I started screaming at them and luckily nothing happened (luckily = I’m a white dude and there was a whiten woman scared next to me).

      But all I can think about is if I had drawn a gun because people were intruding in my home…well, I’d be dead probably.

      For context I live in such a gun nut state that our state motto is “sportsman’s paradise” (hunting) and we just ended permits for concealed carry. Yup, you read that right. Folks can just walk around with concealed guns here now like it’s 1844.