hotel guard kills black hotel guest. Charged with manslaughter

[Eugene]

1. From other reports, Straight said he wanted to "deter" aggression after an earlier dispute.

From the Washington Post:

Before Straight became a private security guard, he spent 16 years working at the Tulsa County Jail, where he faced multiple accusations of misconduct including racial discrimination, was the subject of four internal-affairs investigations and was facing a demotion when he retired early in 2018, according to federal lawsuits against Straight and his personnel file from the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.

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Straight waived his Miranda rights in the aftermath of the shooting and spoke openly with Tulsa police officers about what happened between him and Carson, according to the affidavit. He said “that Carson did not actually make an aggressive move towards him to provoke him,” according to the arrest affidavit, and argued that he used the pepper spray to “deter him from being aggressive.” His plan was to detain him for trespassing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/19/tulsa-security-guard-shooting/