A Texas police officer has been acquitted on an assault charge related to the 2019 fatal shooting of a woman with a history of mental illness after the two struggled over his stun gun
"Pamela Turner made a decision to evade arrest, to resist arrest, take a weapon from a police officer, not only take it but then use it against him," Cagle told jurors Monday.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Turner's family, has said she was not pregnant but had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Crump, who in recent years has represented victims of police brutality and vigilante violence and has been the lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, called the jury's verdict"a setback in the effort for equal justice under the law in America."