Unarmed Man Shot by Deputies Inside His Own Car Outside His Own Home (Florida)
Deputies in Florida's Escambia County have some explaining to do after they allegedly shot an unarmed man for grabbing a box of cigarettes out of his own car outside his own house.
Roy Middleton was returning home from work early Saturday morning, when he stopped by the car he and his mother share to grab some cigarettes.
A neighbor who didn't recognize Middleton phoned the local sheriff's office to report a possible burglary.
Deputies dispatched to the scene found Middleton inside the vehicle and ordered him to back away with his hands in the air. As he was doing so, Middleton says he turned to face the deputies.
"It was like a firing squad," he later recalled from his hospital bed. "Bullets were flying everywhere."
All told, deputies fired seven shots, five of which struck the car and the side of Middleton's house, where his elderly mother Ceola Walker was sleeping.
At least one of the bullets hit Middleton's leg.
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And some claim we have a color blind society. Readers, ask yourselves if a young, pretty blond woman doing the exact same thing would have been shot.
