Six months after a 23-year-old man was fatally shot while trying to rob his cousin’s home in Apopka, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrested two of his accomplices in the robbery on murder charges in his death, records show.
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Editorial: Lawmakers must pick up where Chauvin s jury left off
By American-Statesman Editorial Board
The jury did its job. Now lawmakers must do theirs.
The Minnesota jurors who convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin this week of murder affirmed the truth we all saw in the video of George Floyd’s last moments. Floyd’s death, senseless and brutal, resulted not from lawful policing but a criminal act.
The jury’s verdict provides accountability in one appalling case of police misconduct. But so much work remains. Texas lawmakers and members of Congress need to pass laws that improve police practices, strengthen the avenues for holding bad actors accountable and prevent unfit officers from surfacing at new departments.
/ Debbie Bush speaks at a rally to support the Texas George Floyd Act outside of the Texas Capitol in March. Her nephew, Marquise Jones, was killed by a San Antonio police officer seven years earlier.
For seven years, Debbie Bush has fought to make those in power see the injustice she sees.
In 2014, her nephew was killed by an off-duty San Antonio police officer at the age of 23. Marquise Jones was shot in the back running from the scene of a fender bender in a restaurant drive-thru lane. The officer said Jones had a gun other witnesses say he didn t. The officer was cleared of wrongdoing and remains on the force.