Black man eating in his backyard killed by Florida cops because he didn’t put down his pocket knife.
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i feel yall, but she didnt aim and pull the trigger of a deadly weapon at a peaceful man
Nah she just called the ? who don't mind getting their hands ? . -
DA_Executionah! wrote: »LcnsdbyROYALTY wrote: »Shoulda killed his sister, her snitch ass is the cause of this.
Don't be saying that ? ? she didn't want him to get shot. He was acting up pulling knives on people what else was she suppose to do? She just wanted to dead the situation she didn't expect the. Cops to ? him . I saw this on the local news she was upset about it. Them cops didn't have to shoot him they shouldve tased him. I think the police is really a death squad.. does any body remember the news reports about that girl in South Florida who training in the episode academy and for target practice they had pictures of black men but she quit and was shooting and user becausemne of those pictures was her brother who only had misdemeanor charges?
I read the article over, and over... looking for when it said he pulled a knife during the argument...
I just dont see itGregory 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.
Nothing about a knife being pulled during the argument. -
Why would you call the cops on a siblings for an argument?
Pretty sure other family members around could handle it... -
Don't blame the sister for his death. Focus on the real issue
Nah ? that. We gotta deal with the fact of black females using the state as a proxy to commit violence. Whether we talkin gettin ? thrown in jail over cs payments or false allegations and gettin ? mercd by 12. Pigs are a constant we know what they on and more importantly so did she.
shhh you cant critique black people/women on here or you automatically hate women/ youre a ? . -
But white folks can't catch a bullet when they're actually trying hard to harm the police.
Or when they are eating the face of another person. -
Don't blame the sister for his death. Focus on the real issue
if she didnt call guaranteed dude would be alive today -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/florida-black-man-killed-by-police-gregory-frazierFlorida black man killed by police was 'executed' in his backyard, relatives say
A black man who was shot dead by police officers called to a domestic altercation at his Florida home was “executed” as he sat eating chicken wings in his backyard, relatives claimed on Monday.
Deputies from Broward sheriff’s office shot Gregory Frazier, 55, multiple times outside the house in Pompano Beach on Friday night after a 911 call from his sister, who said he was threatening her and her daughter with a knife and “breaking up the house” after a day of drinking.
In the call, Deborah Frazier warned the dispatcher that her brother was wielding a Swiss army-style pocket knife.
But Frazier’s relatives insist he had regained his composure by the time the two officers arrived and was sitting calmly in the backyard eating chicken and fries when they approached him.
Quartaze Woodard, Frazier’s nephew, told the Broward New Times that the officers opened fire after his uncle twice refused an order to lie on the ground.
Woodard said that the officers handcuffed Frazier after shooting him, then released the handcuffs and attempted to perform CPR once they realized he was unresponsive.
Deborah Frazier, meanwhile, told the New Times that she regretted calling 911. “I would never have called the cops if I’d known this would happen. They just came in and started shooting right away,” she said.
Scott Israel, the Broward County sheriff, announced on Monday that he had asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate Frazier’s death, along with another deputy-involved shooting in Pompano Beach earlier in the day that saw a motorist and traffic officer taken to hospital.
In that incident, Israel said, a “routine traffic stop” turned violent when a driver reversed his car into a deputy and another officer fired his weapon at the motorist, striking him in the shoulder. Neither injury was life threatening. Israel said he planned to attend Monday night’s community gathering to speak about both incidents.
Earlier on Monday, Frazier’s family had released a statement through the law firm of civil rights attorneys Daryl Parks and Benjamin Crump demanding answers.
“We are working diligently with our legal team to determine exactly why police felt the need to execute him as he ate his supper in the backyard of his house rather than use negotiation tactics,” the statement said.
“We will never forget Greg and we will fight so that his death will not be covered up.”
Crump, an attorney who rose to prominence when he represented the family of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager shot dead by neighbourhood watch leader George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, echoed the relatives’ calls for information.
“The family hopes that there is police body camera video or eyewitness evidence that can demonstrate whether this type of force, which they believe was excessive, was actually required,” he said.
“The reason communities of color around America are so enraged is because it seems to be a ‘shoot first, ask question later’ scenario when it comes to police interactions with people from our neighbourhood.”
Friends and relatives were due to attend a community rally at the Greater Bethel Baptist church in Pompano Beach later on Monday to pay their respects to Frazier, a landscaper, with family members and religious leaders planning to address the crowd.
Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for the BSO, said the two unnamed deputies had been placed on administrative leave while detectives continued to investigate the case.
“When deputies arrived, someone in the house directed them to the backyard where they encountered the subject who produced a knife. Both deputies fired their weapons,” she said in a statement.
Paramedics from Pompano Beach fire rescue pronounced Frazier dead at the scene.
