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Riding his bike & talking on the phone, Dontrell Stephens shot 4 times in the back by Florida police

This is a national epidemic. In cities and states all across America, police are using lethal force on unarmed men and women. 

Exclusively-obtained dash-cam video shows Dontrell Stephens, 20, talking on a cellphone while riding his bike on a Friday morning in September 2013.  He can be seen turning onto Norma Elaine Road near Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Boulevard as PBSO deputy Adams Lin trails him. Moments later, Stephens realizes he’s being followed. He pulls over, gets off his bike with a cellphone in his right hand. And then, right there, Officer Lin begins to unload his gun into Dontrell Stephens. With nowhere to go, he gets shot in the back over and over and over again. Immediately, Officer Lin lies and says that he told Dontrell to get on the ground multiple times, but nothing of the sort happened.

In this unedited video of the shooting, which includes sound, it’s clear that Officer Lin made no such commands. Attorney Jack Scarola states, “There are no records of any commands ever made to Dontrell Stephens,” explained Scarola. “The deputy’s recorded statements following the shooting were absolutely false.  Internal affairs completely ignored that evidence,” he said.  

Amazingly, Dontrell survived the shooting, but is now paralyzed from the waist down.

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