(AL.com)
Officials with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund have asked federal officials to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Thanksgiving night police shooting death of 21-year-old Emantic “E.J.” Bradford Jr. at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover.
Sherrilyn A. Ifill, President and Director Counsel for the LDF, on Thursday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Jay Town requesting his office investigate the circumstances around the alleged fight and shooting that left Bradford dead at the hands of police and 18-year-old Brian Wilson and a 12-year-old Molly Davis, injured.
In the letter, Ifill criticized the Hoover Police Department for claiming Bradford was the gunman before a full investigation was completed.
“By baselessly and wrongly blaming Mr. Bradford for the shootings before conducting a competent investigation, the HPD has caused tremendous pain to Mr. Bradford’s family and to the local community, resulting in days of protests and a deepening mistrust that will only make an investigation into this matter by local authorities more difficult,” Ifill said in the letter. Read more