For just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Charges have been filed against an officer who shot and killed a man inside a san l leandro walmart. The warning you need to know about, plus the temperatures. Coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Developing news tonight. A san leandr Police Officer has been charged with felony manslaughter in the deadly shooting of a black man inside a walmart. Friends and family of the victim say this is a first step, but as abc 7 news report j. R. Stone reports, the officers attorney is criticizing the d. A. s decision. Drop the bat. Back up. Drop the bat. This is video from back in april showi moments before officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed Stephen Taylor inside a san leandro walmart. Alameda County District attorney Nancy Omalley says officer fletchers use of force was not warranted. At time of the shooting, it was not reasonable to conclude mr. Stephen t
His client feared for his life and defended himself. The law doesnt require officers even in todays age to have their brains bashed out with a lethal instrument. Which a baseball bat is. Drop the bat, man. Reporter officers tased taylor but it didnt work. Officer fletcher then fired a shot that proved to be deadly. Omalley has charged fletcher with voluntary manslaughter. Fletcher seen here in this archive individual from 2013 had been with the department for more than 15 years. Family members say taylor may have been having a mental episode but believe he could have been talked down. Friends of the family say that while they would have liked murder charges, at least this is something. At the end of the day a lot of times we have to settle. Reporter at the time of the shooting, taylor was homeless. I did reach out to his mother and grandmother who deferred all comments to their lawyer. A lawyer who says they are encouraged by the d. A. s decision. In alameda county, j. R. Stone, abc 7
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Coverage for you. Blake burman at the white house. Lauren simonetti watching those markets and Hillary Vaughn is is in washington but we begin with blake. Reporter ashley, Republican Convention next three nights as they see it, continue to draw the distinction between President Trumps vision of the future and joe bidens vision of the future. Tonight will have a bit of a family feel to it as well, as two of the president s children will speak later this evening, tiffany trump, and eric trump and the keynote address will be given by the first lady from the newlydecorated rose garden. Melania trumps chief of staff says the first lady will talk about her role as a mother and a look ahead to the potential second term. Her speech tonight will be very positive and uplifting which is her signature. She wants to look forward. She wants to talk about what she as first lady plans to do when the president wins another four years. She also wants to lay out for the American People while, why it is s