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Knoxville, Tennessee, saw a second night of protesting Thursday in reaction to the recent shooting death by police of high school student Anthony Thompson Jr.
Wednesday’s first night of unrest followed the release of police bodycam footage of the incident and the Knox County district attorney’s claim that a police officer’s use of deadly force was justified.
The video showed Thompson, 17, was carrying a gun when he was shot in a school restroom, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
On Thursday, calls for police reforms and for the Knoxville police officers involved in the shooting to face charges seemed louder than during the previous evening’s protest, the report said.
U.S.|One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot
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Family and friends honored the lives of young people killed by gun violence in the Austin-East Magnet High School community in Knoxville, Tenn. Many wore shirts with a picture of Justin Taylor, 15, who died in January.Credit.Jessica Tezak for The New York Times
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One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot
Five students at a Knoxville, Tenn., high school have been killed in gun violence this year, plunging a community’s young people into a whirlwind of trauma.
Family and friends honored the lives of young people killed by gun violence in the Austin-East Magnet High School community in Knoxville, Tenn. Many wore shirts with a picture of Justin Taylor, 15, who died in January.Credit.Jessica Tezak for The New York Times
“Why do we care?” he said critics ask.
“This has been going on for too long, and we are here to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” Skinner said while surrounded by protesters in downtown Knoxville on Thursday night.
Only a handful of hours separated the memorial for Thompson and the protests calling for justice in his name. Thompson was killed by police in an Austin-East bathroom on April 12. The release of police video sparked protests about the officers confrontation with the teen.
The gathering of hundreds of protesters on foot and following in vehicles was much like the night before, only the cries for police reform grew louder and attracted more people as another day passed with questions about why the teen had to die. It was another day of pain shared by a Knoxville community struggling to process five shooting deaths of Austin-East students in 2021.
Timeline shows how shooting at Austin-East High School in Knoxville unfolded
DA Charme Allen went over the moments starting about noon April 12 until Anthony Thompson Jr. was shot to death. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 10:34 PM CDT April 21, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
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Over more than two hours Wednesday afternoon, Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen presented key pieces of evidence gathered in the investigation into the April 12 fatal shooting at Austin-East High School involving four police officers and student Anthony Thompson Jr.
Here s a timeline of events that day which led up to the confrontation in a school bathroom about 3:15 p.m.
She also pointed out that while the officers knew that Thompson was known to carry a gun, they had no reason to believe he had it with him at school.
Allen showed video from the bodycams worn by all four KPD officers that were involved. While both Baldwin s and Cash s cameras came off during a scuffle with Thompson, Clabough s stayed on the entire time. Willson s camera wasn t working.
The video below may be disturbing so view at your own discretion:
The videos all show the four officers enter the bathroom. Thompson is sitting in a bathroom stall with the door open, on his phone. They order him to get up, and he puts his hands in the front pocket of his hoodie as he stands.