Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
Aaron Rozier was sure Roger Fortson was from Georgia the first time he heard him speak. There was something familiar about his accent, Rozier said, remembering the day he and Forston met in 2021 while stationed together at Hurlburt Field Air Force base in Okaloosa County, Florida. Turns out, they grew up about 10 minutes away from each other in the Atlanta metro area and their mothers attended the same high school. Building on that instant connection, they became like brothers.
“As a young Black man in the part of Florida we live in, he didn’t have a chance,” Johnson said. “The officer that responded to the disturbance — which, by the way, is still under question, where the disturbance was coming from — I personally feel that he only saw the color of Roger’s skin and the firearm he had in his hand. And that was enough to validate his own fear and cause him to shoot Roger.
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