Ex-officer not guilty of manslaughter in Georgia shooting
Source: Associated Press
4 hours ago
WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot a fleeing, unarmed black man was acquitted Saturday of voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.
The jury, however, found Zechariah Presley guilty of violating his oath of office in the 2018 shooting of Tony Green, 33, in coastal Camden County near the Georgia-Florida state line. Presley was ordered to be jailed pending sentencing Oct. 18. He faces a prison term of one to five years.
Presley sat silently at the defense table. Greens relatives wiped away tears after the verdict was read.
Pastor Mack DeVon Knight, whose church Green attended, denounced the acquittals outside the courthouse, saying the evidence was open and shut.
He admitted that he killed Tony Green in cold blood, Knight said. To me, its hunting season for the young black man and were being gunned down in the streets and theres no repercussions, theres no consequences for these officers.
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Can anyone rebut what Pastor Knight is saying? 'cause I sure as hell can't!
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)finding police officers guilty and when they do they are far to lenient on them.
As an example they had the option of at least convicting him of involuntary manslaughter which at a minimum they should have and yet they only found him guilty of a far lesser crime.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)If the officer "violated his oath of office," then it seems to me he must have been guilty of some misbehavior. Why he is not held to account for that misbehavior doesn't make a lot of sense.
-- Mal