WORSE THAN WALTER SCOTT: Brooklyn DA Refuses To Prosecute Retired Corrections Officer Who Pursued, Shot Man On Camera

By Bob Owens

In March we covered the on-camera killing of a man in a Brooklyn subway by a retired corrections officer.

I’m forced to think of the line from Animal Farm, that “some animals are more equal than others.”

A retired corrections officer named Will Groomes fought with and them pursued an apparently drunk man who had punched him and spat at him in a subway car in Brooklyn.

Once they arrived at the station the younger man, Gilbert Drogheo, attempted to flee. Groomes pulled his weapon and chambered a round, and then blatantly broke the law.

The video plainly shows that the retired corrections officer pursued Drogheo with a drawn weapon, and shoved him. There is then a scuffle, and Drogheo is shot. He later died at the hospital.

Groomes is attempting to claim that the young men tried to rob him, but it is incredibly clear from the video that the younger, smaller man is simply attempting to get away from the armed Groomes, and Groomes was the aggressor who assaulted Drogheo on camera before shooting him.

Incredibly, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is refusing to file charges against Groomes over what appears to be an …read more

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