“Instead of de-escalating the situation, they escalated—all while talking trash,” David Thomas, the father of Keshawn Thomas, told The Daily Beast.
What started as a routine check on Keshawn Thomas, a 27-year-old Black man who was sleeping, intoxicated, in his green Camaro at a gas station in Albuquerque, ended when cops fired 16 shots and killed him.to have seen Thomas holding a gun that was later found in the cab of his car with a single bullet in the chamber. Police can be seen retrieving a weapon after the shooting in body-camera footage of the episode. They also shared photos of an additional magazine found in the car.
“Instead of de-escalating the situation, they escalated—all while talking trash,” David Thomas, the man’s father, told The Daily Beast. In a statement, Shaun Willoughby, president of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association, told The Daily Beast, “The department is under a DOJ consent decree and we strictly follow constitutional policing and this is an example [of] current training. This training is confusing and often puts officers at risk, in an effort to preserve the constitutional rights of an individual.”
In a press conference last month, Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina conceded that the incident was not exactly an example of pristine policing in practice. “No,” David Thomas countered in an interview on Friday. “The reason we’re having problems out here in Albuquerque and why not only myself but a lot of people don’t trust the police department is because police are not being held accountable.”
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