After 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson was shot and killed by police at his Knoxville, Tennessee high school last week, the woman who called the police has come out apologizing for making the call.
Thompson was shot Monday, April 12 in an Austin-East Magnet High School bathroom after his girlfriend Alexus Page said the two got into a physical altercation at school. Page’s mother, Regina Perkins, called the police on her daughter’s boyfriend of nine months after she said she unsuccessfully tried to reach Thompson’s mother.
Not long after Officer Jonathan Clabough visited Perkins’ home to take a report, Perkins saw a helicopter flying over the school and heard reports of a lockdown, despite Perkins saying she told authorities that the teen likely wasn’t armed.
Last week,
The Rootreported that 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson Jr. was shot and killed by police officers in the restroom of Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn., after police responded to a call about a “possibly armed” student.
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Law enforcement officials originally reported that before he was killed, Anthony shot one of the officers who had gone into the restroom with their guns drawn, but later they corrected the report saying the bullet that hit the officer didn’t come from Anthony’s gun and that the gun had gone off during a struggle.
Now, the woman who called the police in the first place who turns out to be the mother of Anthony’s girlfriend is apologizing for calling the cops, and says she never indicated that Anthony was armed.
April 21, 2021
According to a report from the Atlanta Black Star, a white Tennessee mother called the cops on her daughter’s Black, 17-year-old boyfriend, but now she regrets it after the cops arrive and shoot the teenager.
Regina Perkins called the cops on 17-year-old Anthony Thompson Jr. after her daughter, Alexus Page, alleged that Thompson, her boyfriend of nine months, had physically assaulted her. Page said that her boyfriend hit her in the face and pulled her hair on April 12, which prompted her mother to call the authorities after she could not get a hold of Thompson’s mother.
Perkins advised the authorities that she didn’t believe that Thompson had a weapon, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations claimed that the teen had a gun.
White Mom Regrets Calling 911 on Daughter s Black BF After Cops Kill Him
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A Tennessee mother said she regrets calling 911 on her daughter s Black boyfriend after he was fatally shot by police in a high school bathroom.
Regina Perkins called police on April 12 after her daughter, Alexus Page, said she was assaulted by her boyfriend, 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson Jr. Perkins said her daughter came home with marks on her face and missing hair after she was sent home following an altercation with Thompson, who she had been dating for nine months. Alexus told me that she was grabbed and that her hair was pulled, and that is really what led me to feel that I needed to do more, Perkins said.
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