COPS KILL DIABETIC MAN AFTER CALLS 911 FOR HELP

Another day, another controversial incident between police and a black man shot and killed by them. This time, in Waycross, Ga., the family of Jack Lamar Roberson say they witnessed cops shoot him while he was unarmed with his hands up. However, police say he was brandishing two weapons. On Friday, Oct. 4, Alicia Herron, Roberson’s fiancée, called 911 out of fear that he was suicidal after taking medication for his diabetes. “I thought he might have taken too much,” she said. She asked for an ambulance, but instead two officers arrived at the residence where Roberson was with Herron, their 8-year-old daughter, Zophia Roberson, and Jack’s mother, Diane Roberson. The Waycross Police Department say they showed up when they received a report that there was an attempted suicide and that Roberson was becoming combative. What happened next is where both sides have two starkly different stories. Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said Roberson lunged at the officer with two objects he described as weapons and that Roberson ignored the police’s request to drop the items. According to a statement, via The Florida Times-Union… “The officers retreated as Roberson gained ground on them and raised one of the “weapons in a threatening manner,’’ whereupon the officers fired to prevent their being assaulted, Tanner said.” Waycross Mayor Clarence Billups said he was given a similar story but could not confirm if the items in Roberson’s hand were knives. Diane Roberson says the police are lying. “If you’re any type of man, you’ll come to me and you’ll tell me why you stood up there and told a lie. Two knives, we don’t own two decent knives,” she said. Herron also said her fiancé had no weapons on his person when officers arrived and that he kept his hands up. The two officers involved in the shooting have been put on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Georgie Bureau of Investigations. The investigation was called for immediately after the incident.