A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground.

A Floridasheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground.

Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment.

Body camera video shows that when the deputy arrived outside Fortson’s door, he stood silently for 20 seconds outside and listened, but no voices inside were heard on his body camera.

  • @rockSlayer
    66•9 months ago

    The cop will get off and slither to the department 2 towns over.

    • @Broken_Monitor
      20•9 months ago

      As is tradition. How many times must this happen before we start holding cops accountable for their actions? How can you uphold the law while standing on top of it and pissing all over it?

      • @rockSlayer
        20•9 months ago

        I’m adamant that we should mandate a 4 year law enforcement degree and a certification, issued by an independent community police board.

        • @[email protected]English
          18•9 months ago

          If a nurse causes a malpractice that is on their license for years and other states detect it. Cops nothing. We should have their full history accessible to the public.

        • @Broken_Monitor
          10•9 months ago

          A thousand times yes. We require those degrees to do so many far less critical jobs. It’s unreal how completely opposite this is for LEOs.

          • @rockSlayer
            4•9 months ago

            I never said anything about giving more money to police departments.

              • @rockSlayer
                1•9 months ago

                I wasn’t expecting you to revive this discussion, but I’ll still talk about it. I was suggesting that the independent oversight board is funded by diverting police funds. For it to be independent, we’d have to prevent former cops and their families from being on the board. Since the independent board is responsible for issuing the police licenses, that would be pretty easy to track.

                For the record, I’m not saying that this is the only solution either. To me, this is a large part of the overall solution for ending police violence. There are a lot of police reforms I want to see, but we have to start somewhere.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•9 months ago

      But why would they hire him when the first department give him a glowing recommendation?

      Oh, I see.