one more cop shooting an unarmed black man story in which he was holding open the church door for a mother and child;

Davidson County, NC — Last November, Fred Cox, 18, and his family were attending a funeral for Jonas Thompson Jr. at the Living Water Baptist Church. During the ceremony, shots rang out as a drive-by shooting unfolded and Cox went into hero mode, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Unfortunately, according to the complaint, a police officer on the scene would kill Cox for his act of heroism.

“Fred is dead for being a hero while Black,” Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing Cox’s family, said at a press conference on Wednesday.

According to police, on November 8, 2020, Cox was a guest at the funeral for Thompson who was murdered two weeks prior. At the request of Thompson’s family, Davidson County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Shane Hill was also in attendance, investigating Thompson’s murder. He was there to make contact with potential witnesses.

As a group of people walked to their cars after the funeral, shots rang out from a drive-by shooting outside the church. As the shooting unfolded, Cox reportedly saw a mother and her 12-year-old child attempting to seek cover so he ran in their direction and held the door open for them to run inside faster.

According to the lawsuit, as Cox held open the door, deputy Hill opened fire on Cox from behind, putting several bullets into his back — killing the 18-year-old would-be hero. Despite the 70 rounds that were fired that day, Cox was the only person to die.

After he killed Cox, Hill claimed to have seen a firearm on Cox’s possession which is why he opened fire. However, his family and their attorneys dispute this claim and say that their son was unarmed when Hill opened fire.

Also, according to the mother and son he helped into the church, there is no way Cox could’ve been holding a gun as he had one hand on the door and another hand ushering them inside the building as the chaos ensued..........read and watch more.....