Caught on Tape: Wake Forest Police Shoot Unarmed Black Girl then Cover it Up
Friday, February 25, 2005 at 02:10PM
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Officer takes away the gun, and tells fellow Officer not to say anything.
Eyewitness News has obtained a
video showing what happened before a Wake Forest police officer shot an
innocent girl. It happened last Thursday night. The video shows Officer
Kenny Mangum responding to a call and being cut off twice by a minivan.
Mangum decides to follow the driver. During the two-and-a-half-minute
chase, the minivan driver runs through at least three stop signs,
swerves into the oncoming lane to avoid another Wake Forest police
officer and then jumps out of the van and into a house. A Wake Forest
police officer shot 14-year-old Brianna Richardson in the arm. The
camera recorded yelling, but no sound of a gunshot. A woman then yells,
"You shot my child!" The victim, 14-year-old Brianna Richardson, was
inside the house when the bullet came through the front door and hit
her in the arm. Jermaine Richardson, the man police say was driving the
minivan, is led out of the house in handcuffs a few seconds later.
Officer Mangum is seen pacing in front of his patrol car, when he is
asked about the shooting. "I didn't realize I shot," Mangum said.
"There's my casing." Another officer takes away his gun, and tells him
not to say anything. The victim told Eyewitness News that she did not
realize she had been shot. "I had felt a pain in my arm, so I looked
down at it. It was bleeding," Brianna Richardson said. "I told my
momma, 'I got shot. I got shot.'" It is unclear if Officer Mangum
accidentally fired his weapon -- or if his weapon went off
accidentally. The police department's internal affairs investigators
will question him Tuesday as their probe continues. Mangum is on paid
leave.[more]
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