A former Florida police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday ...
- A former Florida police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for fatally shooting a black motorist who was awaiting a tow truck in October 2015.
The conviction was unusual in a country in which police officers kill roughly 1,000 people each year, a disproportionate number of them black men, usually without facing prosecution, according to a Washington Post database on police shootings. Jones was in the car, waiting for a tow truck. Prosecutors said Raja never identified himself as a police officer and that the officer acted aggressively in a way that likely led Jones to mistake him for a robber.
Sheila Banks, Jones’ godmother and aunt, called Jones a “gentle soul,” and choked back tears as she pictured his dying moments. Raja’s elder brother, who continues to work as a police officer, apologized to the Jones family and complained that Raja had been unfairly treated for what he called “a bad decision.”
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