The local news in central Florida (that's where deland is in case no one knows that) gave this almost no attention. They showed some of the video and called him a felon and said the officer is not facing charges. If you only watched the news that's all you would know. This kind of stuff is escalating in central Florida and the Orlando area. Last week a cop shot two dogs in some kind of supposed gang drug bust. It was in a residential neighborhood that is like a five minute walk from my house and
Two elementary schools had to be on lockdown because of it. They were locked down because there were gunshots in the area, and turns out it was only two shots from the dogs being shot. They later talked really casually about it and said that one dog had died and the other would die soon. Like an hour later and they are just waiting for the dog to die. This happened 9/13/13.
I know what you mean. The article in the Orlando Sentinel hardly makes anything over the issue.
In the moments before his death, Marlon Brown was sprinting through a vegetable garden in a residential area and DeLand police with sirens blaring were not far behind.
As Brown neared a fence that enclosed a backyard, he was cornered. Two police officers stopped. But as shown in a video released by Brown’s family on Wednesday, rookie Officer James Harris, third in line in the chase, kept going.
I suspect the same is true in other parts of the U.S., where if you are only watching the local news (or a predominance of it), then your entire world-view is going to be skewed by such a local narrative.
