Cop Charged After Video Showed Him Kill a Man in Walmart for Holding Sporting Equipment
As TFTP reported earlier this year, a tragic case out of San Leandro, California illustrates the propensity of cops to escalate to deadly force in cases where unsound people are during a crisis and wish help - not bullets. A man was killed inside a Walmart for holding a bat. After the community expressed their outrage, police were forced to release the body camera footage days later and it didn't bode well for his or her case. Now, four months after officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed Steven Taylor, 33, but 40 seconds after entering the shop , Fletcher has been charged. On Wednesday, Fletcher was arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter within the fatal shooting of Taylor in April. "A thorough review of the statements of witnesses and involved cops , physical evidence and therefore the review of multiple videos of the shooting show that at the time of the sh...