A former Portsmouth, Va. police officer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man accused of shoplifting at a Wal-Mart. But Gregory Provo, the Wal-Mart security guard who reported Chapman to police, testified that Chapman never charged at the officer. Prosecutors said the officer, who is white, could have used non-deadly force, noting that every witness but Rankin testified Chapman, who was black, had his hands up. before Rankin fired at him from about 5 yards away. In his first on-duty killing, he was cleared of wrongdoing after firing 11 times at a white burglary suspect.

Source: Fox News August 04, 2016 20:26 UTC