*”They just killed that man in cold blood. They just seen that man had a gun on him. They shot that man down for no reason,” a man named Noland Moore said in video uploaded to Facebook.
Moore, like others on social media, was commenting about the so-called “Black Friday Shooting” of a black man in a Hoover, Alabama mall last Thursday on Thanksgiving. Three gunshot victims can be seen in the video, including Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., also known as EJ. Before you read any further, watch what Trevor Noah has to say about the situation. It’s powerful, to say the least.
Yes, Bradford, 21, was armed. However, he had a legal concealed weapons permit, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann. Protesters gathered Tuesday night at the mayor’s home to demand answers.
Here’s more via CBS News:
Hoover police have offered shifting explanations for why they mistook Bradford for an active shooter at Riverchase Galleria Mall. At first police in Hoover insisted he had wounded two people earlier at the mall. They quickly backpedaled: Bradford was not the gunman. The real gunman remains at large.
At Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a civil rights landmark, several hundred supporters shared the Bradford family’s anger and frustration. It was too much for April Pipkins, the victim’s mother. She collapsed in grief. “I have to go bury my baby boy,” father Emantic Bradford Sr. said, choking up with emotion. “And it hurts me to the core because being at home everyday ain’t going to be no fun because I can’t talk to my child.”
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Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Bradford family says Emantic Bradford was killed because police saw a black man holding a gun.
“There’s some suggestion… that to stop the bad guys with guns we need to have the good guys with guns. Well, EJ Bradford was a good guy with a gun,” Crump said. And. again, that’s EXACTLY what comedian/activist Trevor Noah is saying in the video above.
According to witnesses, Bradford was trying to help people to safety when he was shot. Bradford’s family is demanding the release of videotapes from the shooting – including what’s inside the shooting officer’s body camera. CBS News says it’s been pushing for more answers in the shooting. State investigators won’t comment while the case is active. Hoover police, despite a pledge of transparency, never responded. In their latest statement, they insisted Bradford was holding his gun when they first responded at the mall.
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