last August Police officer in Greensboro North Carolina shoots Nasanto Antonio Crenshaw, an unarmed black teenager. Because he was accused of trying to evade a police stop in a stolen car.
According to a new lawsuit filed by Crenshaw’s mother Thursday morning, Officers fired two more shots as the car slowly passed him. Even if he wasn’t in danger.
“This is a terrible shooting,” said attorney Harry Daniels, who compared the boy’s death to the death of Andrew Brown, a black man shot and killed in his car by police in North Carolina. Brown, in a lawsuit that settled for $3 million the same summer that Crenshaw died.
“If this video were to (have) marched in protest across Guilford County. Greensboro, so this is no different than anyone else you see, a black kid… unarmed, shot and killed by the police,” he said. “That’s another day in America right now.”
The City of Greensboro sent a request for comment to the police department. Department spokeswoman Josie Cambareri told The Daily Beast in a written statement that since the incident, State and local officials are investigating what happened that day. and the police are still on duty.
“According to standard practice The relevant officers had been performing administrative duties since the day of the incident,” Cambareri wrote. “In addition to the criminal investigation from In addition to the (State Bureau of Investigation), GPD also conducts an internal investigation to determine whether it complies with its policy.”
The government agency did not immediately respond to requests regarding the status of their investigation. Or whether to send it to the local district attorney’s office or not.
according to the family case An unnamed police officer responded at 9pm on Aug. 21 to a report of a stolen car on West Market Road. Crenshaw, 17, was later found to be the driver of a passenger. many people according to the family’s opinion
The tracker went to the parking lot of a local business and attempted to block Crenshaw’s car in a dead-end section of the area when Crenshaw attempted to make a turn. He cut the face of the officer’s car and stopped in the parking lot.
That’s when the police got out of the car. Order the group to crouch on the ground. That was when the situation escalated. The family’s lawsuit alleges that
Crenshaw “turned the wheel to the left as he exited the parking lot” in an attempt to evade the police and his car. Read the indictment based on video footage of family and legal teams. Some of the passengers got out of the car and ran away. Leaving Crenshaw and the other minor alone.
The police then fired the first shot.
He then fired two more shots as the car slowly passed by the officers, the lawsuit alleges.
According to the indictment, the bullet allegedly showed the police standing next to the car when he fired all three shots.
Crenshaw’s sister, Nakita, said the 14-year-old in the car told her her brother’s “neck hangs down,” according to the Daily Mail. Triad City Beat.
“The Defendant was not at any time…in the trajectory of the Nasanto moving vehicle,” the lawsuit said.
At 21:08, eight minutes after receiving “Gshot wound in right arm. right rib and a gunshot wound to the right side of the neck.” Crenshaw died, according to court filings.
“I feel like you overdid my brother,” Nakita said. Triad City Beat.
According to the judgment of the Supreme Court Tennessee vs. Garner Serious force may not be used on a fleeing person unless “the officer has a good faith belief that the suspect poses a threat of death or serious injury”.
The lawsuit filed against the City of Greensboro and an unnamed cop alleges that the police were never in danger and sought compensation for Crenshaw’s death in the recent shooting of a suspected black man and boy. by police Many of which are based on car chases.
As the family began to speak out after the accident Daniels told The Daily Beast they were barred by a court order from speaking about what they saw in a bodycam video shown to them after their son’s death.
“If the police had a reason…you and I would have seen that video on the same day. when they have done something wrong They cover it up,” Daniels told The Daily Beast.
