Noir homme tué par la police dans l'Utah aurait été porter une épée de jouets

Le mercredi, 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot dead by police in Saratoga Springs, Utah, sur 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.

For three days, police said nothing about the cause of the shooting while witnesses reported that he was running away as officers shot outside a Panda Express. Le samedi, police issued a brief statement saying he lunged at them with a sword. But Hunt’s lawyer dit an independent autopsy shows Hunt was shot in the back and not in the front, and his mother Susan Hunt says the “sword” was a blunt-edged vanity version of a Japanese “Katana” sword he bought at an Asian gift shop.

“Those stupid cops thought they had to murder over a toy,” Susan Hunt told the Associated Press. The family’s lawyer, Randall K. Edwards, declined requests from the Los Angeles Times to provide the name of pathologist who performed the alleged autopsy, or to provide a copy of the autopsy.

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