Florida deputy stops black man on bike, shoots him 4 seconds later

[Tom Joad]

What can I say?

This is outrageous.

Cops are way way way out of control in this country.

On the last morning of the last day Dontrell Stephens could still walk, the 20-year-old was bicycling across Haverhill Road, talking to a friend on a cellphone.

A truck slowed as he rode against traffic.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy Adams Lin was watching schoolchildren waiting for a bus.

Later, he would say he followed Stephens to give him a traffic ticket for not bicycling properly. But he also would acknowledge he was suspicious of Stephens, whom he had not seen in the neighborhood before that morning, according to court records.

He intended to stop him, ask for identification and find out where he had come from and where he was going. He considered frisking him. But Lin, who is of Asian descent, denied racially profiling Stephens, who is black, and wore his hair in long dreadlocks.
Dashcam video shows fatal shooting of Dontrell Stephens

Dashcam footage shows Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy Adams Lin following, then fatally shooting, Dontrell Stephens. Warning: this footage could be disturbing to some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3hTWLHUOU#t=89

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