Attorney: Officer threatened black man before fatal shooting

Thursday, May 4, 2017

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The white police officer who shot a black man to death outside a convenience store pointed a gun at the man's head and threatened to shoot him before they wrestled on the ground, lawyers for the slain man's family said Wednesday.

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