🚨Video has just been released of deputies in Baton Rouge shooting and killing #DeaughnWillis through the door of his home in a case of mistaken identity. Read the details about this story. Police have been trying to cover this up for 2 months. A thread. wafb.com/2022/03/11/inv…
East Baton Rouge deputies showed up looking for Deaughn’s brother. They knocked, waited 15 seconds and then fired multiple shots killing Deaughn. Police refuse to release the body cam video. But video was captured by a Ring camera next door. That video raises even more questions.
The available video is split up, suspiciously missing key moments. It cuts off BEFORE deputies shoot and resumes AFTER the shooting already started. Deputies got to the video immediately after the shooting and say the missing part is coincidence. Where’s the rest of the video?
Deputies also claim Deaughn had a gun but that’s nowhere on the video and even the police admit *no gun was found.* The deputy had a semi-automatic rifle and shot at least 2 bullets through the door.
Louisiana has a policy encouraging officers to use the guns they’ve been trained the most on. The shooting deputy - Eno Guillot - is an ex-military sniper who ran combat missions in Iraq. So they let him use high-caliber weapons to raid homes in Black communities on a SWAT team.
AFTER the shooting witnesses say deputies threatened to arrest his for trying to provide him lifesaving aid. His body was cremated soon after by the coroner before the investigation was even completed. The deputy is already back on duty. A cover up. This is part of a pattern…
The East Baton Rouge Parish coroner has been known to cremate homicide victims in violation of state law - destroying the evidence needed to investigate these cases. soundoffla.com/has-ebrp-coron…
And the agency that shot #DeaughnWillis - East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office - is the worst sheriff’s office in Louisiana. A pattern and practice of racist, unaccountable policing with a corrupt coroner to go along with it. policescorecard.org/la/sheriff/eas…
After police killed Amir Locke and Breonna Taylor in no-knock raids, the killing of Deaughn Willis is more proof that stopping no-knock raids isn’t nearly enough. Police didn’t need a no-knock warrant - they knocked, waited, then killed Deaughn anyway. Now they’re covering it up.
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