WAYCROSS, Ga. State authorities say they are investigating after Georgia police opened fire on a car with two teenagers inside during an attempted traffic stop on Saturday morning.
No one was injured in the shooting at Waycross near the Georgia-Florida line, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. But the agency said in a news release that a 15-year-old boy was being treated for minor injuries after an altercation with an officer.
Five children – ages 16, 15, 14, 12 and 9 – were alone in the car when a Waycross officer witnessed a moving offense by the driver, the GBI said. The car stopped and the three younger children got out and ran and the officer started following them.
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A second officer approached the car from the front when it started driving towards him, the GBI said. That officer fired multiple shots at the car, with the 16- and 15-year-old boys still inside.
‘They shot at a car full of armed minors. A car full of unarmed children, ”Dominique Goodman Sr., who identified himself as his father’s children, told WJXT-TV.
Goodman said the Walmart children came home when an officer began following them in his patrol car. He said the younger children came out and tried to run home to warn him and he stepped outside after hearing their cries.
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“We open the door, we see my 9-year-old, my 12-year-old and a 14-year-old running from the police behind them with guns behind them,” Goodman said. “We’re going down the street and we see our 15-year-old and our 16-year-old on the ground.”
GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said she did not know the children’s races or the officer who opened fire.
Attorney Gerald Griggs of Atlanta, as vice president of the city’s NAACP chapter, said the organization is calling on police to release the cameras from cameras and cameras of the traffic stop immediately.
“I’m very concerned that shots were fired while children were involved,” Griggs told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We are concerned that the level of force was used.”
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