‘Beyond a Simple Mistake’: Georgia Cops Entered Black Man’s Home Without Warrant and Killed Him ‘In a Matter of Seconds’ After Rousing Him from Sleep, Lawsuit Says

It was 11 p.m. on a Friday night when Georgia cops entered a home without a warrant and shot a Black man named Marando Salmon to death. Investigators initially claimed Salmon was killed after he refused multiple commands and reached for a gun, but that turned out to be a lie. Then they said he was killed after he threw “an object” at them, but investigators did not specify what that object was. It was not until more than a year later — after a grand jury indicted the two DeKalb County police officers — that the public learned the object was a phone.& Marando Salmon (center) was shot and killed in 2022 after two DeKalb police officers, Russel Mathis (left) and Jordan Vance (right), entered his home without a warrant. (Photos: DeKalb Count District Attorney’s office) But even then, police still insisted they thought it was a knife. Last week, Salmon’s family filed a lawsuit against DeKalb County and the two former police officers, Russel Mathis and Jordan M. Vance, accusing them of violating his Constitutional rights by entering his home without a warrant.& Defendant Mathis violated Mr. Salmon’s rights under the Fourth Amendment when he unlawfully trespassed in...