What Suicide by Cop Looks Like
We fixate on police misconduct, and for good reasons. But many, many police shootings look more like this: desperation forcing another's hand. All the easy answers are wrong.
Willie Roy Allen was going to die behind a trailer in a nameless parking lot in Lithonia.
The pre-dawn gloom hid the Taser wire, but the cops training flashlights on him could see the gun in his hand. Allen had refused surrender. He resisted electrical shocks three times. And after 20 minutes of pleading, he had drawn…
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