UNARMED TEEN SHOT & KILLED BY COP: Was This Justified Or Was The Cop Out Of Control?
This traffic stop turned deadly after this 17-yr old refused to give the officer his driver’s license. Do you think this is messed up and wrong or was the officer justified?
The family of a Michigan teen who flashed a car’s brights at a sheriff sergeant’s SUV and wound up dead filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday.
A complaint on behalf of slain 17-year-old Deven Guilford accuses Eaton County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jonathan Frost of unconstitutional violations of privacy and excessive force in a Feb. 28 traffic stop in the rural central Michigan county outside Lansing.
Guilford flashed the headlights of the car he was driving at the sheriff department’s new SUV as Frost drove it the opposite way on State Highway 43, according to the complaint. The Ford Explorer had “improperly bright or misaimed headlights” and Frost had stopped two other drivers for flashing their lights at him that night, the lawsuit said.
The officer and the unarmed teen can be seen arguing over whether Frost had his brights on in bodycam video that was later released.
Read more: NY Daily News
