Protesters march to LPD & City Hall, demand body camera footage from officer-involved shooting
Protesters march to LPD & City Hall, demand body camera footage from officer-involved shooting By Will Hutchison | March 2, 2021 at 6:02 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 6:20 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Tuesday, people marched in Lawton in protest of an officer-involved shooting.
Tuesday, the group brought forth requests from Johnson’s family, the first being that the body camera footage from Johnson’s shooting is released.
“We should not have to wait for footage that is there and readily available right now for this mother’s cause. We also ask for accountability. Any time a life is taken there should be immediate responses for accountability. We wait too long to ask for basic human rights when a life is taken,” said activist and event coordinator Amberly Taylor.
Nine years ago, Ebonyneke Futrell left a small city in southwest Oklahoma and headed west toward Colorado’s mountains in search of a safer place to raise her three young children.
Futrell was 23 years old when her older brother, Emmett, was shot and killed in front of an apartment complex in their hometown of Lawton, Okla., said her godsister, Amberly Taylor. The year her brother was killed, he was one of nine homicides in Lawton, which had a population then of 90,000. She decided to seek refuge in Colorado Springs, a city with more than five times Lawton s population, but with a much lower homicide rate.