JACKSON, MISS. Officials have not yet said who is responsible for the shot that killed a 3-month-old baby when his father died in a shootout with police on a highway last week in Mississippi. Activists with Black Lives Matter Mississippi are calling for the release of police body camera footage of what happened May 3 near Biloxi. Investigators won t say whether any officers were wearing body cameras at the time. A group gathered Sunday by Interstate 10, near the site of the shooting, to pay tribute to the life of infant La Mello Parker and two people who were killed earlier May 3. Authorities said Christin Parker, 32, and her nephew Brandon Parker, 26, were killed by La Mello s father, Eric Derrell Smith, in a domestic dispute, leading to the police chase and standoff in which Smith and the baby were killed.
Hard questions linger over baby killed during police shooting
“Knowing that there was an infant in the vehicle, where were their hearts? he told the AP. Where is the empathy? Author: Leah Willingham Associated Press Published: 1:49 PM CDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 1:49 PM CDT May 11, 2021
BILOXI, Miss Officials have not yet said who is responsible for the shot that killed a 3-month-old baby when his father died in a shootout with police on a highway last week in Mississippi.
Activists with Black Lives Matter Mississippi are calling for the release of police body camera footage of what happened May 3 near Biloxi. Investigators won t say whether any officers were wearing body cameras at the time.
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BLM Mississippi protests killing of infant in I-10 shootout
BLM Mississippi protests killing of infant in I-10 shootout By Mike Lacy | May 10, 2021 at 6:59 AM CDT - Updated May 10 at 4:07 PM
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Sunday afternoon it was a memorial service and a call for justice. Black Lives Matter Mississippi protestors were demanding answers in an interstate shootout that happened last week involving law enforcement. That shooting ended the lives of a double-murder suspect and his three-month-old son.
Protestors say the matter could have been resolved without killing an innocent child.
The tragic scene on Interstate 10 last week in which murder suspect Eric Smith was gunned down still shows the scars and evidence of the horror. But it is now a growing memorial in honor of Smith’s three-month-old son La’Mello Parker, who also died in the hail of bullets.
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Reginald Virgil, the leader of Black Lives Matter Mississippi, explains the organization’s youth programs intended to enrich and empower the next generation in Mississippi’s communities of color.
Kareem Henton, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Cleveland, discusses the city’s history of police killings and their new documentary series about police injustice in Ohio.
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