Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer body camera released Monday, April 15, 2019, shows two officers approaching 27-year-old Danquirs Napoleon Franklin outside a Burger King on March 29, 2019 in Charlotte, NC. The body camera footage shows two officers approaching 27-year-old Danquirs Napoleon Franklin outside a Burger King on March 25 after witnesses called 911 to report a man with a gun acting in a threatening manner.The police video shows officers repeatedly yelling for Franklin, who is black, to put his gun down. The police video shows officers repeatedly yelling for Franklin, who is black, to put his gun down and he doesn't move as police approach him. He lowers his hand right around the time when the first of two shots by the officer can be heard on the video. "Shots fired!" the officer yells into her radio. About 40 seconds had passed from the time the officer exited her cruiser to when Franklin was shot. Corine Mack, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP chapter, summed up her reaction to the video in four words: "Hurt, disgust, anger, frustration." But she said anyone who chooses to protest in response to the release should do so peacefully. She said the officer didn't follow procedure and "didn't view Danquirs Franklin as a man, but saw him as a danger." - This ties back to the civil rights movement and the use of peaceful protests to fight against the unjust and racist actions taken by people. And the same ideas of some white people or the civil rights era are represented by how the police officer didn't view him as a man but as a threat even though he wasn't posing a single threat to her.
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I'm really disappointed that this continues to happen. It's a reoccurring situation; there is a black man who hasn't threatened to shoot an officer, and the officer doesn't follow procedure and shoots him. Did the officer receive any punishment? This will continue to happen if there are no repercussions. -Miranda Farrar
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ReplyDeleteIt's sad that this keeps happening. This is why racial profiling should be in politics.
ReplyDeleteThis hurts my soul whenever I see events like this, how many deaths will it take for them to realize racial profiling is a deadly issue and that our current gun laws need to be reevaluated. -kloe rhoden
ReplyDeleteI wish there was a way to stop these tragedies from happening. I feel that many senseless deaths occur, but I also can't imagine being an officer and having to approach any person not knowing if they are armed. It is a very difficult problem to try to solve.
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