They sat on the video as long as they could, but discovery is a thing in the American legal system. Shooting an unarmed teen in the back of the head was justified, police said. Then video emerged.
Murrietta-Golding, 16, takes eight steps before the officer fires a bullet that shatters the teenager’s head, just above his brain stem.
He died three days later in a hospital.
Cops were searching for his brother when they shot him. Not him.
At the time of the shooting, cops said they “feared for their lives” because he reached for his waistband. He was holding up his pants and running away. He was really executed because he disrespected their authority.
Chandler [an attorney] was denied access to the surveillance video by police and city officials, he said, and received it only as part of the trial’s discovery process.
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