Prosecutors taking a look at security officer involved fatal shootings
Charlotte NC June 19 2020
It’s not just the police that state and county prosecutors are taking a second look
at for Use of Force incidents, especially fatal ones.
Private security officers are under the microscope in at least jurisdictions involving fatal shootings
or other deaths occurring through the use of force by private security officers.
At least one of the cases being reviewed is at least six years old.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said that she will review the 2014 death of a 25-year-old black man who died during a struggle with security guards at a Southfield mall.
McKenzie Cochran died in the struggle which took place on Jan. 28, 2014, according to the Associated Press.
Cellphone footage from the incident at Northland Mall showed Cochran being held face-down on the floor by several security guards as he struggled to breathe.
Another fatal death at the hands of security guards in Ohio in 2018 is also being reinvestigated.
And prosecutors in California and Florida say that they are reviewing two cases that occurred in 2017 and 2018.
Each year, private security officers across the nation are involved in more than two hundred deadly force incidents.
This month, a security officer in San Antonio Texas shot and killed a drunk driver who drove her vehicle into another security officer and injured him at a nightclub.
And in Tulsa Oklahoma, a security officer working at a motel fatally shot a man that he had been involved in a confrontation with.
Christopher Straight, 53, the security guard, was booked into the Tulsa County jail on a complaint of first-degree manslaughter and was released on bond.
