Black man eating in his backyard killed by Florida cops because he didn’t put down his pocket knife.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-man-eating-backyard-killed-florida-cops-article-1.2786966
Cops responding to a domestic disturbance call in Florida shot and killed a man in his backyard who was eating chicken wings while holding a pocket knife.

Gregory Frazier’s sister called police Friday night while Frazier was arguing with another family member.

But by the time cops arrived, Frazier, 52, was in the backyard of his Pompano Beach home eating with a small Swiss Army-style pocket knife in his hand.

When the two officers told Frazier to get on the ground, he told them to “leave me alone,” according to a report in the Broward Palm Beach New Times.

Moments later, both deputies from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office opened fire. It was not immediately clear if Frazier had confronted them with the knife, but his relatives said Frazier did not have to die.

“Yes, he had a pocket knife. A rusty pocket knife,” the dead man’s sister, Deborah Frazier, told the Miami Herald. “I believe those three cops could have sat down, talked to him, used Tasers, anything, to constrain him.”

Neighbors and community leaders alleged a racial bias in the shooting because Frazier was black and the officers involved are white.


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http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/bso-deputies-fatally-shoot-pompano-beach-man-who-was-eating-chicken-wings-updated-8072862

“Quartaze Woodard, Frazier’s nephew, who was at the scene, says three deputies showed up and told Frazier to get down on the ground. Frazier responded, ‘Leave me alone.’ The deputies repeated the order. Again, Frazier asked them to leave him alone. After that, Woodard says, the officers shot him. Then, after handcuffing him, and removing the handcuffs once they realized he was non-responsive, they attempted to perform CPR. It was too late.”
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