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A Tennessee man was 'needlessly shot and killed' by police, family lawyers said Monday, in a confrontation captured on an officer's body camera which appears to show the man on his back when he was fatally wounded. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers went to a a home on Split Oak Trail in Antioch on Oct. 9, answering a call that a man was holding another man at knifepoint, authorities said.
prompted officers to break in to find two men struggling and falling the ground. Kersey, wearing a black top and jeans, appeared to be flat on his back when Ranseen fired one shot toward the man's midsection, the officer's body camera footage showed. Kersey was 'needlessly shot,' according to a family statement. Attorney Marwan Porter went a step further. “Officer Ranseen executed a defenseless man. There’s no other way to say it,” Porter said in a statement on Monday.
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