Caught on Tape: Wake Forest Police Shoot Unarmed Black Girl then Cover it Up
Tron Nick
Officer takes away the gun, and tells fellow Officer not to say anything.
Eyewitness News has obtained a video showing what happened before a Wake Forest police officer shot an innocent girl. It happened last Thursday night. The video shows Officer Kenny Mangum responding to a call and being cut off twice by a minivan. Mangum decides to follow the driver. During the two-and-a-half-minute chase, the minivan driver runs through at least three stop signs, swerves into the oncoming lane to avoid another Wake Forest police officer and then jumps out of the van and into a house. A Wake Forest police officer shot 14-year-old Brianna Richardson in the arm. The camera recorded yelling, but no sound of a gunshot. A woman then yells, "You shot my child!" The victim, 14-year-old Brianna Richardson, was inside the house when the bullet came through the front door and hit her in the arm. Jermaine Richardson, the man police say was driving the minivan, is led out of the house in handcuffs a few seconds later. Officer Mangum is seen pacing in front of his patrol car, when he is asked about the shooting. "I didn't realize I shot," Mangum said. "There's my casing." Another officer takes away his gun, and tells him not to say anything. The victim told Eyewitness News that she did not realize she had been shot. "I had felt a pain in my arm, so I looked down at it. It was bleeding," Brianna Richardson said. "I told my momma, 'I got shot. I got shot.'" It is unclear if Officer Mangum accidentally fired his weapon -- or if his weapon went off accidentally. The police department's internal affairs investigators will question him Tuesday as their probe continues. Mangum is on paid leave.[more
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