Calls for justice during funeral of black man killed at mall
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December 2, 2018
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered the eulogy Saturday for an African-American man shot to death by a police officer following a shooting at a crowded Alabama shopping mall.
Jackson said the Hoover police officer who shot Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, "must face justice" and urged authorities to release tapes of the shooting. "No one is above the law," Jackson said.
The officer killed Bradford on Thanksgiving night while responding to a shooting at the Riverchase Galleria Mall. Authorities initially identified Bradford as the gunman, but later retracted that a...
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