Prosecutors announce that police will not face charges for fatally shooting the man who was setting cars on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails near a police station in North Carolina.
who shot and killed a man throwing Molotov cocktails and setting cars on fire near a police station in May won’t face charges, prosecutors announced Monday.into the officers’ use of force. Citing an imminent risk to officers and the public, Freeman's report said"the fatal use of force was not unlawful and that therefore, there is no legal basis for pursuing a criminal prosecution," news outlets reported.
Reuel Rodriguez-Nuñez, 37, was recorded on video tossing cups filled with a flammable substance at police officers and their vehicles on May 7 in a parking lot next to a district police station in Raleigh, North Carolina. His family said he was having a mental health crisis.In body camera footage released by police in June, an officer sprints into the parking lot and apparently goads on Rodriguez-Nuñez, who is standing beside several smoldering vehicles.
A burned-out police vehicle is towed outside the police station in Southeast Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 7, 2022. North Carolina police officers who shot and killed a man who set cars on fire near a police station in May won’t face charges. Master Officer P.W. Coates repeatedly swears and shouts"Do it! Do it!" at Rodriguez-Nuñez, as another officer tells him to put his hands on his head. Coates approaches Rodriguez-Nuñez within the length of a parking space and tells his colleagues,"Give me the go ahead." At that point, Rodriguez-Nuñez throws a Molotov cocktail at Coates and the four officers open fire.
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