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Fatal Alabama Police Shooting Caught On Camera

BuzzFeed News have revealed video footage of Alabama police shooting an unarmed passenger during a traffic stop in 2013. The video which had not been previously released to the public shows two police officers from Alabama fatally shooting unarmed black man, Cameron Massey, while he was a passenger in a car during a traffic stop in October 2013. The attorney representing the family of the slain man, refutes police’s claims of self defense in the face of imminent danger. Buzz Feed reports: Albert Samaha YouTube video: The video, which has not been previously released publicly, contains five minutes of footage from the body camera of one of the officers involved in the shooting, Eufaula Police Chief Ralph Conner. Massey died after being shot five times. “Officers cannot just shoot people based on absolutely irrational perspectives about a scenario,” Mario Williams, the lawyer for the Massey family, told BuzzFeed News. “This was an absolutely unreasonable shooting.” Massey’s family filed a civil suit against the officers and the department in July 2015. The suit is ongoing. Both officers claim that they fired because they feared Massey was going to injure one of the officers. Officer John Phillips told investigators that he stopped [...]