Let me be the first to say I am no civil right leader but this was a young man that needed help not 60 bullets shot at him!!

 

 

Alonzo Heyward is shown in this undated family photo provided by James Marine. The fatal shooting of Heyward, 32, by Chattanooga police as he was carrying a rifle and threatening suicide has raised questions of possible excessive force.

Tennessee cops shoot 59 rounds to kill one man

Civil rights leaders worried race played a role in death of suicidal neighbor

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent Chattanooga neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours
before six city police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it
had to end.

His father says Heyward told the officers, "I'm not out here to hurt anybody."

But police, who tried unsuccessfully to disarm Heyward, fired 59 rounds to kill him on July 18. The medical examiner found 43 bullet wounds in his chest, face, arms, hands, legs,
buttocks and groin. Police contend Heyward was a danger to others and threatened
the six officers.

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