Quo Mieko Judkins condemns the shooting
Criminal-defense attorney for Phillip M. Brown
“It is shocking to me that someone was almost killed over a missing front license plate.”
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About this source
Guardian report reproducing Quo Mieko Judkins’s statement to Washington City Paper and DHS’s contemporaneous defense of the shooting.
Before the quotation
Brown had been stopped for heavily tinted windows and a missing front license plate and was later charged with fleeing.
After the quotation
Judkins said Brown was nearly killed in an encounter that ended with the court finding insufficient probable cause for a criminal charge.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Was HSI Agent Benedict Bebber justified in firing at Phillip M. Brown?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
She directly rejects the shooting as an acceptable response to the stated basis for the stop.
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Was HSI Agent Benedict Bebber justified in firing at Phillip M. Brown?
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