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“At no time was the Defendant…in the trajectory path of Nasanto’s moving vehicle,” the lawsuit stated.
At 9:08 p.m., eight minutes after receiving “gunshot wounds to his right forearm, right-side rib cage, and a gunshot wound to the right side of his neck,” Crenshaw died, according to the court filing.
“I feel like you overshot my brother,” Nakita also told Triad City Beat.
According to the Supreme court decision Tennessee vs. Garner deadly force cannot be used on someone who is fleeing unless “the officer has a good-faith belief that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury.”
The lawsuit, filed against the City of Greensboro and the unnamed cop himself, claims that the cop was never in danger and demands compensation for Crenshaw’s loss of life in the latest of questionable shootings of Black men and boys by police—many of which follow a car chase.
While the family initially spoke out after the shooting, Daniels told The Daily Beast that they were forbidden by a court order to tell others what they saw on bodycam footage shown to them in the wake of their son’s death.
“If the police were justified… you and I would have seen that video, same damn day. When it’s something they did wrong they cover it up,” Daniels told The Daily Beast.
