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Sharon Hill, PA — When 8-year-old Fanta Bility and her family attended a high school football game last August, they never imagined that their worst nightmare would come true that night. Sadly, however, thanks to a group of trigger happy police officers using excessive force, that is exactly what happened. Now, after attempting to escape accountability by charging two teenage boys with Fanta’s murder — despite the fact that she died at the hands of police guns — the three officers who opened fire that day have been charged.

Officers Brian Devaney, 41; Sean Dolan, 25; and Devon Smith, 33, were charged this week with voluntary manslaughter, manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

Predictably, the police union-appointed attorneys for the officers disagreed with the charges, claiming that the cops who opened fire into a crowd of innocent people, were essentially heroes.

“These three officers ran to the sound of gunshots and risked their own lives to protect that community,” read the statement from attorneys Raymond Dirscoll, Steven Patton and Chalres Gibbs with the firm McMonagle, Perri, McHugh, Mischak, Davis. “These three good men are innocent and remain heartbroken for all who have suffered because of this senseless violence.”

But the senseless violence was caused by them as the two teens who shot at each other earlier had stopped shooting and fled the scene. It was police who mistook innocent people for criminals and began shooting.

As Fanta and her family walked out of the game that night, police opened fire into their group, killing Fanta and wounding several others, including her older sister.

As stated above, in their original attempt to avoid accountability, police charged the two teens who were fighting, Angelo “AJ” Ford, 16, and Hasein Strand, 18. They were both charged with murder over Fanta’s death — despite not being the ones who killed her. However, now that the officers have been charged, the district attorney has withdrawn the murder charges......read more.........