CCTV footage obtained by 11Alive captured part of the altercation between Fisher and Steverson at the Marathon Fuel gas station. At 10:43pm, Fisher was seen talking to Steverson, who was in his black truck. The footage cuts to Steverson outside his vehicle and sitting on the hood of Fisher’s patrol car. Seconds later, Fisher appeared to push Steverson back down onto the hood during the dispute.
The footage cuts again to another scene, this time of Fisher tackling Steverson to the ground. According to Steverson’s family, Fisher allegedly pulled out his Taser and tased Steverson while his back was turned. They claimed Steverson also had his arm raised in surrender at the time the Taser was deployed before he was handcuffed. The footage, however, does not show Fisher’s initial approach or an uninterrupted view of the entire confrontation.
The incident, however, seemingly left a mark on Steverson. Five days after their initial encounter, Fisher was reportedly sitting in his patrol car, parked in Meriwether Country Inn’s parking lot after an unrelated traffic stop.
Steverson allegedly pulled up next to Fisher’s patrol car before firing multiple shots directed at him at around 11:57pm on Sept. 1, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said. Fisher was declared dead on the scene.
I thought marijuana was legal pretty much everywhere now. They sell it in gas stations. Seems like the enforcement must be pretty selective. Violently arresting someone for something that is barely a crime does seem kind of sus.
Race, age, and location seem pretty relevant here. The US needs police reform. The Southern states absolutely need to have law enforcement oversight and it’s not like we discovered that fact yesterday.
president nixon intentionally made the “war on drugs” – especially marijauna possession – immensely worse as a gambit to silence people who were critical of the vietnam war and its draft since an overwhelming majority of it’s users were liberal.
he admitted to this publicly back in the 1990’s and decades later, his work is still in the books in most of the united states and still being used to ensure that the american prison population remains high to benefit the prison owners and justify police militarization.
the fact that most people don’t know this fact is indicative of the epstein class’ efforts at making westerners --americans in particular – ignorant of the reasons why things are setup like they are.
the really confusing part to me is that people like noam chomsky has been telling people about this (although he didn’t call it the epstein class at the time) and i would have expected liberals to be aware of it since chomsky is such a well known liberal.
They are going the opposite direction in some states.