Michael Davidson, an airman with the Air Force,
was
reportedly shot in the abdomen by Phillip Hancock, a cop from
the Opelika, Alabama police department. Davidson was involved in a
minor accident with a diesel truck on I-85 last week, according to
his father, Billy Davidson, who said he spoke to his son after the
airman regained consciousness in an Alabama hospital.
The airman was on his way to North Carolina, where he was going
to be stationed at Seymore Johnson Air Force Base, according to his
father, who says police did not inform him they had shot and
critically wounded his son until noon the next day. “An
investigator calls telling me he was investigating the shooting…
and that’s how I was told. That wouldn’t have happened in Texas.
I’d have known about it within 30 minutes if it had happened in
Texas,” the father, a Texas native, told the local paper, the
Panola Watchman.
Davidson’s father told the paper that police have not been
giving him a lot of information on why his unarmed son was shot or
the events surrounding the shooting. When he went to the police
department to find out why they didn’t inform him sooner about one
of their officers shooting his son, he says police apologized and
said they assumed the state, which had taken over the
investigation, had informed him. The father also says his
son’s car, a GMC Encore, remains missing. Police have apparently
told him the state has it, while the state has apparently told him
the police have it.
The Watchman also picks up on some reporting from the
local paper in Opelika, the Opelika-Auburn News, and
finishes its article with this quote from the mayor of Opelika:
“I understand the officer involved will be suspended until
the investigation is complete. Of course, certainly we’ll continue
to compensate the officer.” Certainly! Because why should
cops be held to a
higher standard and not afforded privileges above and beyond
those they are theoretically supposed to serve and protect?
h/t Sharon Jones
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