HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Family and friends of a 6-year-old boy killed when marshals in a Louisiana town opened fire on a vehicle were gathering for the boy’s funeral service Monday afternoon.
Jeremy Mardis was killed and his father, Chris Few, wounded when marshals in the town of Marksville opened fire on their vehicle last week.
Mardis was to be buried Monday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had recently moved from Hattiesburg to Louisiana.
Louisiana state police announced late Friday that they had arrested two of the marshals involved in the shooting and are still investigating the incident, which raised questions almost from the beginning.
Initial reports suggested the marshals were serving a warrant on Few when the shooting happened. But Louisiana’s head of state police, Col. Mike Edmonson, has said there was no evidence a warrant was issued. He added that no gun was found on the scene.
Derrick Stafford, 32, of Mansura, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, of Marksville, each face charges of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder. They were being held in a jail in central Louisiana.
State police said Stafford is a full-time lieutenant with the Marksville Police Department; Greenhouse is a full-time city marshal. Both were working part-time as deputy marshals in Marksville’s Ward 2 when Tuesday’s shooting occurred, state police said.
Investigators have been combing through forensics evidence, 911 calls and body camera footage. They have not released the footage or the calls, but Edmonson described the body camera footage at a news conference Friday as “the most disturbing thing I’ve seen.” He added that the boy had died while still buckled into his seat in the car.
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Look at those faces. They are bewildered and indignant that this is happening to them. They are Cops…how can this be!!! Not Us…we can do what we want!!!
Looks like the mug shots of career criminals to me.
Their eyes are swollen and bloodshot. They look like they’ve been crying. A lot. As well they should. But they probably are a bit bewildered by the fact that when white cops have been in nearly the same situation they’ve gotten cover from their chief and union. There’s almost always a long, slow investigation. Black cops shot a white kid and they’re dealt with exactly opposite of the way they would be if the kid had been black.
The kid was white and the two officers are black. I wonder if that has anything to do with the swift reaction of the local prosecutor.
Hey all the white cops get off for this kind of shit.
Thank you Plucky. I was just about to post something similar. I have been watching the coverage of this and the outrage while definitely warranted, I never see this outrage when white cops kill a black kid. It is so fucking blatant. How anybody can read who these guys are by their pictures is beyond me.
I want to see these guys get away with it just like 99% of white cops get away with killing black people.