Alabama mayor backs police officer in fatal mall shooting of ‘EJ’ Bradford

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(HOOVER, Ala.) — The mayor of Hoover, Alabama, said Wednesday that the city will support and defend a police officer who killed a legally-armed African-American man in a shopping mall in November, a shooting that the state attorney general ruled was justified. Mayor Frank Brocato said during a news conference that officials at the Hoover …

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