‘Why Are You Still Shooting?!’: Atlanta Off-Duty Cop Shoots Black Man 17 Times In the Back — Now a New Witness May Expose What Police Tried to Bury

‘Why Are You Still Shooting?!’: Atlanta Off-Duty Cop Shoots Black Man 17 Times In the Back — Now a New Witness May Expose What Police Tried to Bury

It’s been weeks since an Atlanta police officer killed a 44-year-old Black man named Linton Blackwell by shooting him 17 times in the back outside a bar, and police have released very little details to the family of the slain rapper known as B Green. “It wasn’t just an execution but a new form of modern-day lynching,” said Blackwell’s cousin in a telephone interview with Atlanta Black Star.  “How do you justify shooting him 17 times in the back?…