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Criminal history, who several witnesses say was trying to get away from the shooting and was waving people away from the shooting. the police officer based on several witness accounts came up, saw e.j., a young black man with a gun and they said within milliseconds he shot and killed him and then even though it was unjustifiable for him to pull the trigger, it was also unjustifiable how the hoover police department pulled the trigger and released his face and plastered it all over the media all across the world saying he was the killer and they were celebrating this officer who shot him as a h...

Roberson in chicago with e.j. bradford, they don't see a good guy, they see a criminal and they just shoot and this offduty hoover police officer who was providing private security for the galleria mall, based on the witness accounts, he saw a black man with a gun and he shot. we have to say that enough is enough. we are trying to be given the benefit of the doubt. everybody's saying give the police the benefit of the doubt. it was a confusing situation. they didn't give e.j. bradford the benefit of the doubt. they shot him in his face and while he was laying on the ground on that mall on that...

Raised. they knew that this was not the character of e.j., so they knew even before the police retract it and said that they lied on their son that it wasn't true. they assassinated his person and then they assassinated his character and they're still trying to justify a bad shoot. >> now, ms. pipkins, let me follow-up on that. tell our viewer what kind of son e.j. was. >> my son was a very loving young man. he would give you the shirt off his back. anybody he could help, he was going to do that. he was definitely going to do that, just like his father has, he was there. he's -- he's stopping ...

Night. the reason, police have admitted to fatally killing and targeting the wrong man. local police say e.j. bradford jr. likely did not fire the rounds that injured a teenager and the true gunman remains at large. joining me now is e.j.'s mother, april pipkins and attorney that represents the family, civil rights attorney benjamin crump. first of all, let me give you, ms. pipkins our prayers and condolences on the loss of your son and tell us what you and the family know at this point. >> well, at this point, like, the update said that he is not -- they found out that he is

Not the shooter. originally, you know, i learned of my son's death pretty much from a close friend of his who called me, but at this point we just know that he was shot by police, shot down. >> now tell us the circumstance. there was a shooting at the mall. how did they end up shooting and killing, the police this is, e.j.? >> reverend al, thank you for having us, first of all, and here we go again. the family of e.j. bradford jr. will need you to come down to birmingham so they don't sweep his death under the rug. this is a good kid. this kid who served our country in the military, who has no