A white former police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man at a Texas gas station two years ago has been acquitted of murder, the officer’s lawyer say.
“There was not one person that looked like me,” said Sabrina Price, who is Black, referring to the jury, according to the station.
At the time of the shooting, Lucas was one of six white police officers in the small city northeast of Dallas, state records show.at the same time a person entering the shop “initiated a pushing match," family attorney Lee Merritt told the station. “Pushing match was over in 5 seconds.”Lucas had been dispatched to the gas station over a possible fight in progress, Lt. Lonny Haschel of the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
Rogers has previously said that Lucas"only discharged his weapon in accordance with Texas law when he was confronted with an aggressive assailant who was attempting to take his Taser.” Merritt described the evidence Thursday as"overwhelming in favor of guilty" and attributed the verdict to an"inherent bias" toward law enforcement, NBC Dallas Fort-Worth reported.
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