A Detroit police corporal is facing felony assault charges amid accusations that he shot rubber pellets at three photojournalists who covered a protest in May against police brutality in the city. Daniel Debono, 32, was charged on Monday with three counts of felonious assault, which carries a maximum penalty of four years, in the “unprovoked” shooting, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said. “The evidence shows that these three journalists were leaving the protest area and that there was almost no one else on the street where they were,” Kym Worthy, the county prosecutor, said in a statement. “They were a threat to no one,” she said. “There are simply no explicable reasons why the alleged actions of this officer were taken.”

Source: New York Times July 21, 2020 04:07 UTC