Miami Herald: 16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during 'no-knock' raid in AL, suit says

[Dennis Donovan]

Miami Herald - 16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in AL, suit says (free link)

By Julia Marnin
December 24, 2024 2:57 PM



An Alabama teenager was asleep in his childhood bedroom moments before a police S.W.A.T. team “rammed down” the front door of his family’s home and fatally shot him, according to a new federal lawsuit.

Randall Adjessom was left bleeding out in the hallway for more than four minutes during what was an unauthorized, “no-knock” raid by the Mobile Police Department before sunrise on Nov. 13, 2023, the lawsuit says.

The 16-year-old didn’t know it was the police when he was awoken by officers entering his home and breaking a living room window, according to a complaint filed Dec. 18.

He got out of bed, grabbed a gun and left his room “to protect his mother, grandmother, aunt, and sisters from the unknown intruders breaching his childhood home,” the complaint says.

When Adjessom rounded a corner and saw officers in the hallway, he instantly put his hands up and began to back away, toward his bedroom, according to the complaint.

Then one of the officers shot him four times, hitting him in the chest and torso, the complaint says.

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This is the result of poorly-trained law enforcement officers + racism.

[electric_blue68]

1. Goddamn racist fucking cops!

If there's a different story, maybe change my mind... but for now...
There's too many (shouldn't be any!) of these trigger-happy pigs.

I don't use the "pig" term much, but when the shoe fits; there you are!

[sdfernando]

2. I'm with you Electric!

When the shoe fits, call a pig a PIG!

And my oldest brother was a cop.....and I will still say it when warranted!

[electric_blue68]

3. Well, ty.

I do believe there are some good cops out there, and a lot of racist and/or sexist ones, too.

I truly can't blame the good ones for often not calling them out (and I think it's a individual decision) bc their lives, and with the worst ones of these bad ones their families lives also could be in danger, too.

In a better USA these types would be drummed out of their Academy, and never be allowed to be a sheriff (or assistant) any where else!

[sdfernando]

4. Well stated!

[electric_blue68]

5. Well, ty, again from someone [you] who was knowledgeable in that arena bc of a relative who lived it.

[Arazi]

6. Again I say, ACAB

Dems need to put abolishing qualified immunity front and center

[Orrex]

10. Yes to every word of that post

ACAB

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. As long as all the cops went home safe at the end of their shift. That's all that counts.

Oh yeah, and as long as a dime bag of evidence doesn’t get flushed.

What’s one 16 year old civilian more or less?

[Aristus]

8. Fucking Alabama, man.

Racist shithole…

I wish I believed in Hell so I could hope those greasy, cowardly, racist, shitty pigs would burn there forever.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. kick

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Unreformable.

[soldierant]

12. Well. You know the difference between a cop and a bullet?

When a bullet kills someone you know it's been fired.

[wendyb-NC]

13. This is just too much

Senseless tragedy, what horror. Why? What in hell is wrong with these officers.

My heart goes out to this beautiful young person, in their loss and all the family and loved ones.

[1WorldHope]

14. Fucking Hell!!

FUCK! 🤬

[Scalded Nun]

15. "This is the result of poorly-trained law enforcement officers + racism."

Racism - Absolutely
Poorly-trained - I beg to differ

[uponit7771]

17. Yep

[HereForTheParty]

19. You have to be trained to know

Not to shoot a person with their hands up?

[malaise]

21. Trained to be racist

That is all

[lostnfound]

16. It took a year to write this article and they still don't name the cop who shot him. Nt

[HereForTheParty]

18. Let's see the body cam footage

Or haven't they had time to alter that yet?

[malaise]

20. Did not need the photo to know his race

That is all