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Alabama civil rights groups to file public information request for E.J. Bradford footage

Tuesday, the ACLU of Alabama, Alabama NAACP, and the family of E.J. Bradford represented by the Ben Crump Law Firm announced that they were filing a public information request for the release of footage of the shooting of E. J. Bradford by a Hoover Police officer at the Galleria Mall on Thanksgiving night. Alabama Attorney … Continued
February 20, 2019

Marshall: Hoover officer justified in Galleria shooting

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday that the officer involved in the shooting death of Emantic “E.J.” Bradford Jr. was justified. The attorney general released a report on the officer-involved shooting death by the Hoover Police Department. Marshall’s office said it informed the Hoover Police Department and the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation that the … Continued
February 5, 2019

Attorney general’s office will prosecute Hoover mall shooting cases

Attorney General Steve Marshall said his office will take over prosecuting the Nov. 22, 2018, shootings of E.J. Bradford, Brian Wilson and Molly Davis at Hoover’s Riverchase Galleria Mall. Marshall notified Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr (D) that he is assuming prosecution of the cases after the admission by District Attorney Carr in a letter … Continued
December 14, 2018

Bradford family attorney: Autopsy shows no threat posed to police officer who killed him

On Monday, the Bradford family announced that an independent medical review of Emantic “E.J.” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. indicated that E.J. had been shot three times from the back. Bradford was 21 and lived in Hueytown. The family has retained nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney, Ben Crump. Crump said in a statement that … Continued
December 7, 2018

U.S. Marshals capture a suspect in the Galleria Mall shooting

A suspect in the Thanksgiving night Riverchase Galleria Mall shooting in Hoover has been arrested by U.S. Marshals near Atlanta. Twenty-year-old Erron Marquez Dequann Brown surrendered peacefully to US Marshals Thursday morning at a relative’s house in Fulton County, Georgia. He is being held in the Fulton County Jail pending extradition back to Alabama on … Continued
November 30, 2018

Care2 starts petition for AG Marshall to open an investigation into Bradford’s death

The state is still being rocked by the Thanksgiving night killing of 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. in the Riverchase Galleria by a Hoover police officer. A new Care2 petition is calling on Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) to open an investigation into the shooting of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. The Care2 petition has already … Continued
November 29, 2018

Hoover mall shooter still at large

Thursday night a scuffle broke out over a pair of sale price shoes at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover. That quickly escalated into a fight and someone pulled a firearm and began firing. An 18 year male was shot and is still recovering in the UAB Hospital Trauma Center. A twelve year old girl was … Continued
November 26, 2018

Black Lives Matter Birmingham Will Host Vigil on Thursday

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, September 22, 2016, members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Birmingham will host a Candlelight Vigil, Balloon Release & Prayer at Kelly Ingram Park to honor the life of Terrence Crutcher, the unarmed father of four who was killed by Tulsa, Oklahoma police on September 16. BLM activist … Continued
September 22, 2016

Armistead Appalled by Janet May’s Comments on Ferguson

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead called recent comments by Janet May implying that the Ferguson, Missouri riots could help Democrats in the fall elections, “appalling” and called Janet May, “An embarrassment to the State of Alabama.” The GOP Chairman also urged Birmingham Mayor William Bell not to go … Continued
August 25, 2014