A 16-year-old teenager had his hands raised when he was fatally shot by police during an unauthorized "no-knock" drug raid in Mobile, Alabama, last year, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed by his mother in federal court earlier this month. The lawsuit against the City of Mobile and several anonymous Mobile police officers says Randall Adjessom came out of his room holding a gun when he heard someone break down the front door of the house …

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16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in AL, suit says

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…

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Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty   How many more innocent Black people have to die before no-knock warrants are done away with for good, or at the very least, highly regulated? One would think that after the tragedy of Breonna Taylor and the subsequent public outrage, city mayors and police departments would rethink this strategy. Unless law enforcement is attempting to capture someone wanted for violent crimes or sexual assault, there is absolutel…

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Randall Adjessom,16, was asleep in his room when he was shot and killed by Mobile, Alabama, police officers.

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Alabama Cops Shot And Killed Black Teen With His Hands Raised During Unauthorized No-Knock Marijuana Raid, Lawsuit Says

Randall Adjessom, 16, was shot to death last year by the Mobile, Alabama Police Department’s S.W.A.T. team. The police were looking for marijuana allegedly owned by Adjessom’s older brother—who not only wasn’t there, but didn’t live at that home. The Adjessom family filed suit last week against the Mobile Police Department. The officers shot Adjessom four times during a no-knock raid, according to the Associated Press. The no-knock warrant was i…

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