Lawyer: Black Man Shot Dead By Police In Utah Was Running Away

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, Officers stand at the scene of a shooting in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Police responded to a report of a suspicious person and a short time later shot and killed a male suspec... FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, Officers stand at the scene of a shooting in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Police responded to a report of a suspicious person and a short time later shot and killed a male suspect. A woman has criticized police in the Utah County city of Saratoga Springs over the fatal shooting of her 22-year-old son, saying she believes the outcome would have been different had he not been black. Susan Hunt of Saratoga Springs said her family wants answers from police about what happened leading up to officers' shooting of her son, Darrien Hunt, outside a gas station on Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, Spenser Heaps, File) MORE LESS
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A lawyer representing the family of a 22-year-old black man who was killed by police on Wednesday in Saratoga Springs, Utah told the Los Angeles Times that the man was running away from police when he was shot “numerous” times.

Randall K. Edwards, the attorney hired by the family of Darrien Hunt, referred to an independent autopsy that reportedly showed Hunt was shot from behind.

“This is consistent with statements made by witnesses on the scene, who report that Darrien was shot to death while running away from the police,” Edwards said.

The newspaper reported that Tim Taylor of the Utah County Attorney’s Office released a statement about the shooting.

“When the officers made contact with Mr. Hunt, preliminary evidence suggests that Mr. Hunt brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers with the sword, at which time Mr. Hunt was shot,” Taylor said.

However, according to what Edwards told the paper on Sunday, this account is contradicted by the autopsy.

“It would appear difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile these facts with the story released by the Utah County Attorney’s Office that Darrien was lunging toward the officers when he was shot,” Edwards said. “We continue to hope that a full investigation will reveal the whole truth about this tragedy.”

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  1. Avatar for chammy chammy says:

    Of course he was. What other explanation could there be.

    This killing of young black men by police has become an epidemic and as long as they get away with it, nothing will change. A young black man’s life seems to have little value. How pathetic and disgraceful.

  2. Seems like I’ve heard about this sort of thing happening before. Or am imagining it?

  3. Book of Mormon (the second m is silent)

    “And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. And thus saith the Lord God; I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities.” (2 Nephi 5:21)

  4. Must be you, I’ve never heard anything like this before. :frowning:

  5. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    I think the police think that it’s open season on young black men. What gave them that idea?

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