Baptist preacher Jonathan
Ayers had just got money from an ATM at a Toccoa, Georgia
convenience store back in 2009 and gotten into his car when an SUV
pulled up and men with guns drawn jumped out. Ayers tried to to
pull away, but the men start firing at his car, killing him. The
men, it turns out, were police officers, part of a
multi-jurisdictional drug task force. They weren’t wearing
uniforms. Their vehicle wasn’t marked. And Ayers only “crime” was
visiting a woman they were keeping under surveillance. A federal
jury has just awarded his
widow $2.3 million in a civil rights suit.
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