Posted December 16, 2016 1:13 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

sylville smith

Sylville Smith was a criminal with a stolen gun in his hands when he was shot and killed in August… or was he?

Prosecutors charged a Milwaukee police officer Thursday with killing a black man in August, alleging the man had thrown his gun away and was unarmed when the officer fired the fatal shot.

Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was charged with reckless homicide in the Aug. 13 death of Sylville Smith, which sparked two days of riots on Milwaukee’s north side. In the days after the shooting, both the police chief and the mayor had said that police video clearly showed Smith had a gun and was turning toward officers when he was shot. Thursday’s criminal complaint echoed that, but went on to describe a second shot, fired into Smith’s chest after Smith no longer had his gun.

Police Chief Edward Flynn called the charge “a little difficult to understand” and said he hadn’t seen any obvious wrongdoing by Heaggan-Brown in the footage.

Pay close attention to this next part:

Heaggan-Brown, who was fired in October over an unrelated sexual-assault case, shot Smith following a traffic stop. After fleeing police, Smith turned with a gun and was shot once in his …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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