This is horrific!
Teen Killed by Police Was Simply Backing Out of Garage: Suit
BY OLIVIA MESSER
The 17-year-old was home alone when officers were called to the red-brick house to check on him after he’d allegedly threatened to harm himself on FaceTime.
When 17-year-old John Albers threatened suicide on FaceTime, his friends called police.
Within minutes of officers’ arrival at the teen’s home, he was dead—but not because he killed himself.
Officer Clayton Jenison allegedly “acted recklessly and deliberately” when he shot 13 times at Albers, who may not have even known police were at his home, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his parents.
The boy was “simply backing his mom’s minivan out of the family garage,” the complaint alleges.
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Video evidence from a neighbor’s front door camera shows the minivan’s rear brake lights activated as soon as the first shot was fired, according to the lawsuit. But Albers was allegedly hit, “rendering him incapacitated and completely unable to keep control of the minivan.”
more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/unarmed-teen-killed-by-police-was-simply-backing-his-moms-minivan-out-of-garage-lawsuit-claims?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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