Bodycam Video Shows Officer Firing 8 Shots At Black Teen. He Won’t Be Charged.

Their lily-white juries will not indict the mur­der­ous scum­bags in uni­form who sav­age­ly mur­der your chil­dren, so you are left to cry and bury your dead right?
In fact, pros­e­cu­tors will not present the facts in a way for the grand juries to indict even if the mem­bers of those juries weren’t soul­less racists.
I wish to point out that they con­tin­ue to shoot while or before demand­ing that sus­pects drop their weapons, and are jus­ti­fied accord­ing to these inves­ti­ga­tions, even though the sub­ject nev­er point­ed a weapon in their direc­tion and are run­ning away.

Kenneth Nassar fatally shot Jaheim McMillan, 15, on Oct. 6, 2022.
Kenneth Nassar fatal­ly shot Jaheim McMillan, 15, on Oct. 6, 2022.G

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to charge a Gulfport Police offi­cer who fatal­ly shot a Black teenag­er in a park­ing lot in October, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety con­firmed to HuffPost on Thursday. Body-cam­era and dash­cam footage of the inci­dent, which HuffPost obtained through a pub­lic records request, shows Officer Kenneth Nassar fir­ing at least eight shots at 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan out­side of a Family Dollar store in broad day­light. Nassar and anoth­er offi­cer, Benjamin Ford, respond­ed to a 911 call on Oct. 6 that report­ed reck­less dri­ving. An inves­tiga­tive report stat­ed the caller said that “occu­pants inside a sil­ver Kia Soul were bran­dish­ing firearms and wear­ing cam­ou­flage masks.” 

Dashcam footage shows that McMillan and four oth­er teens were sit­ting inside a Kia Soul as offi­cers arrived at the scene and parked. McMillan ran out of the car while try­ing to cov­er some­thing with his sweat­shirt in his hand; anoth­er teen jumped out of the car behind him. The dash­cam footage appears to show a gun in McMillan’s hand as he decides which direc­tion to run, but at no point does McMillan point a weapon toward Nassar. Nassar’s body-cam­era footage shows the offi­cer fir­ing his gun while also shout­ing at McMillan to drop his weapon.

Jaheim McMillan
Jaheim McMillan.

The encounter, dur­ing which Nassar fires eight shots, lasts about five sec­onds. Video shows McMillan falling to the ground, after which point he is no longer vis­i­ble on cam­era. Nassar fires his last shots as McMillan is lying on the ground, accord­ing to the body­cam footage. An autop­sy revealed that a gun­shot to the head killed McMillan. In the footage, the three oth­er teens exit the car with their hands up after Nassar fires his gun. “Get out the fuck­ing car and stay on the ground,” Nassar is heard shout­ing on the footage, and the teens com­ply. While Nassar points his gun at the oth­er teens lying on the ground, a white male walks toward him and ques­tions why Nassar shot McMillan. “You bet­ter have had a good intent. You shot the child? Your ass is going to fuck­ing jail,” the man is heard say­ing. “Sir, step the fuck away,” Nassar shouts. At one point, one of the teens who was inside of the car asks Nassar to check on McMillan because he thinks he died.

Sir, can you please check on him? I think he’s dead,” the teen says. More offi­cers arrive at the scene, and Nassar tells one he had seen a gun in McMillan’s hand, but that McMillan didn’t appear to have a gun on him when Nassar hand­cuffed him and rolled over his body. Officers lat­er dis­cov­ered a gun in the park­ing lot. Bodycam footage also shows Katrina Mateen, McMillan’s moth­er, arriv­ing at the scene and ques­tion­ing why police killed her son. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations com­plet­ed an inves­ti­ga­tion into the shoot­ing this week, and its find­ings were pre­sent­ed to a grand jury, which declined to indict Nassar. Nassar said dur­ing an inter­view as part of the inves­ti­ga­tion that he saw a gun in McMillan’s hand and ordered him to drop it, and that he remem­bered fir­ing at least eight shots. He said he hand­cuffed McMillan while he was injured on the ground, which he said was “com­mon prac­tice.” One of the teens in the car told inves­ti­ga­tors that he felt Nassar had a bias against McMillan. “I real­ly feel like the offi­cer had some­thing against Jahiem too though,” the wit­ness said.