Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
The mother of an Air Force senior airman who was fatally shot in his home last month by a Florida deputy said she and her family will not be appeased by the firing of the deputy and demanded that he be criminally charged. “I want justice for my child,” Roger Fortson’s mother, Chantemekki Fortson, said at a news conference Monday, days after Eddie Duran was fired by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. “You’re not going to throw me a bone. Take his credentials. Bring up charges against him.
” Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Fortson’s family, said the sheriff’s statement confirmed what the family has said from Day One: that Roger Fortson was a patriot who had done nothing to cause his own death. Crump implored the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to act swiftly. “We are still calling on the FDLE to bring criminal charges because this wasn’t mere negligence, this was criminal,” Crump said. “And he should be held accountable. He got a slap on the wrist.
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