(Source: ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union) Sixty-eight-year-old African American grandfather Eurie Stamps was lying on his stomach in his own kitchen, his hands above his head, when Officer Paul Duncan shot him dead. Officer Duncan says it was an accident. But Stamps's family says that when Duncan killed the elderly grandfather, his finger was on the hair-trigger of an assault rifle, pointed directly at Stamps, with the safety off. Any slight movement, even a flinch, would have prompted Duncan to fire. And that's exactly what happened. That was in 2011, during a SWAT raid on Stamps' home. The Framingham, Mass. SWAT team was looking for Stamps' nephew, whom they suspected of selling...
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