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Last August, a police officer in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunned down Nasanto Antonio Crenshaw, an unarmed Black teenager, as he allegedly attempted to evade a police stop in a stolen vehicle.
According to a new lawsuit filed on Thursday morning by Crenshaw’s mother, the officer fired two additional shots as the vehicle rolled slowly past him—even though he wasn’t in harm’s way.
“This is a bad shooting,” said lawyer Harry Daniels, who likened the boy’s death to that of Andrew Brown—a Black man shot and killed in his car by police in North Carolina. Daniels represented Brown’s family in a case that settled for $3 million the same summer that Crenshaw died.
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