Face Down Man Shot in Back 3X By Police in Church Daycare While Kids Present

Face Down Man Shot in Back 3X By Police in Church Daycare While Kids Present

….Witnesses say that 23-year-old Mark Barmore was exiting a storage area at the House of Grace Daycare under orders from police, with hands raised and without a weapon, when he was shot in the neck on Aug. 24. He fell to the ground and was shot three times in the back at point blank range…

More than two months have passed since Barmore’s death, and John Fitzgerald Lyke, one of the attorneys in the case, said the family still has not been given details. “They treated the witnesses as if they were suspects, trying to force get them to change their stories, That’s altering justice,” said Lyke, a former Cook County prosecutor.

Larry R. Rogers Jr., another attorney on the case, said, “The physical evidence doesn’t lie. Mark Barmore had no weapon, no where to run, and he was in a church daycare center. Yet he has three large-caliber, police-issued bullet wounds in his back.”

“We area all human. We want to make sure each officer feels empowered to use all of his or her moral authority to not use deadly force,” Jealous said. “We had children in the church, at school in the church, and in an instant, they had two of those safe places taken away from them.” … read full article

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