A Mississippi Officer Who Shot and Killed a 1-Year-Old Resigned. The Attorney General's Office Had Cleared Him.
A Mississippi police officer who shot and killed a 1-year-old boy while firing into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call has resigned, the mayor of Senatobia told the Associated Press.
Sgt. Hunter Foster, 33, had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing earlier in the week; the Mississippi attorney general's office concluded after a monthslong probe that his use of force was justified.
Ben Crump, an attorney for the family, said footage of the shooting shows the fatal shot came from the side of the car, disputing that Foster was in imminent danger.
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The official finding is the part that matters: the attorney general's monthslong probe concluded the force was justified.
That finding is contested. Ben Crump says the footage shows the fatal shot came from the side of the car, disputing that Foster was in imminent danger.