APD officer charged in Tasing of students also tied to death of man shot 76 times by police

[tulipsandroses]

This piece of shit is now suing the mayor and city for firing him after his disgusting attack on those students in their car.

ATLANTA — One of the Atlanta police officers charged in the Tasing of two college students during a protest is under investigation for a 2016 shooting that left a mentally-ill man dead.
Jamarion Rashad Robinson, 26, was killed in August 2016 after federal authorities say they went to serve a warrant on him in his girlfriend’s East Point apartment. They believed he fit the description of someone who had pointed a gun at Atlanta police officers days earlier.
Autopsy reports show Robinson was shot 76 times by members of federal task force. According to court filings it is still unclear whether Robinson was armed, and none of the officers were using body cameras.

“There’s no evidence there was a gun,” said Monteria Robinson, Jamarion’s mother. "We know that was their narrative,” she told Channel 2 Action News investigative reporter Nicole Carr.
Robinson had no criminal history, and was a former Clark Atlanta student. At the time of his death, he was a student-athlete at Tuskegee University. His family said he was schizophrenic.
“Do I believe my son was the person they were looking for? No I do not. I don’t know if you all recall — on the scene, they showed my mother and two brothers a photo of the person they were looking for and it was not my son.”

][link:https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/apd-officer-charged-tasing-arrest-auc-students-under-investigation-2016-deadly-shooting/G57HRV7YQFFFLAQABN3C2O23BY/|

Robinson died in a hail of gunfire after a fugitive task force armed with weapons that included submachine guns broke down the door in the Atlanta suburb of East Point, Georgia, in August 2016, and fired more than 90 rounds "into or inside" the apartment, according to the lawsuit.

[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/prosecutor-accuses-doj-blocking-investigation-death-student-shot-59-times-n952816|

Meanwhile - if you read the joke of a report-it says that before they got to the apartment, they were briefed about their suspect. Including the fact that he was mentally unstable. I'm not sure if they put that in there to justify their actions.It actually makes them look worse. You needed sub machine guns to take a mentally ill man into custody?

[TreadSoftly]

1. no way to justify the Robinson death

Wondering if citizens ought to all be wearing body cams too, in case the police come by without theirs.

Thanks for posting this. It is important to know that this event occured.

[Coventina]

2. FTP & ACAB

[LiberalFighter]

3. What justifies expending that much ammo?

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Apartment building?

Was the safety of other tenants considered when they were firing bullets all over the complex?

Did anyone confirm his identity matched the photo of the suspect they were looking for?

Heartbreaking

[tulipsandroses]

6. They didn't when they went to Breonna Taylor's apartment

They are not cooperating so we may never know. The DOJ is not cooperating with local prosecutors. He was on a Marshall's task force at the time.

Even more tragic, his mother said she grew up the Arbery family.

[raging moderate]

5. One of my brothers was schizophrenic.

Police clearly do NOT know how to handle these situations. POLICE, YOU ARE INCOMPETENT!

[Stuart G]

7. Very poorly written..Not clear who went...the following sentence puzzeled me,

.....federal authorities say they went to serve a warrant on him in his girlfriend’s East Point apartment.

Of course, this refers to Atlanta policeman.....but it reads like the ....."federal authorities went to serve a warrant on him"

Well ....................the truth I can be confused... often.....

[tulipsandroses]

8. Hopefully this clears it up. There was a joint task force program at the time

Some big cities pulling their police officers out of federal joint task forces

Clashes are erupting between local and federal officials over the hundreds of joint task forces that operate around the country, finding fugitives, fighting drug dealers or tracking potential terrorists. At least five cities, including Atlanta, have pulled out of task forces since 2017.

Police said the task forces don’t follow local accountability rules such as wearing body cameras. The task forces have looser rules about when they can legally use deadly force. Local authorities can’t prosecute officers on task forces and citizens who say they have been victimized can’t sue.

[link:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/27/big-city-police-federal-crime-task-forces/4194719002/|