Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
Attorneys for the family of an Air Force airman killed last week by a Florida sheriff’s deputy called Thursday for law enforcement officials to “correct the narrative” surrounding the 23-year-old’s death, saying that he had done nothing wrong before being fatally shot. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was shot late Friday afternoon by a deputy responding to a call of a disturbance in progress, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said.
” The sheriff’s office has not responded to requests for comment. In a statement Wednesday, Crump called the sheriff’s office’s account “deeply troubling” and said it falsely suggested Fortson had posed a threat. The sheriff’s office has said the deputy, who has not been publicly identified, heard “sounds of a disturbance” and “reacted in self defense” after he encountered Fortson armed with a gun and after he had identified himself as law enforcement.
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