‘Get Up!’: Michigan Police Shot Black Man In the Back Nine Times and ‘Kicked His Lifeless’ Body While Yelling Commands In Ill-Fated Traffic Stop. Now Sheriff Won’t Release Video, Lawsuit Claims

A Michigan sheriff’s office is refusing to release details about shooting an unarmed Black man nine times in the back as he raw away from a questionable traffic stop, including evidence like body and dash camera footage which captured the shooting. But the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office assures the public has nothing to worry about because not only did they investigate themselves and found no wrongdoing, another Michigan sheriff’s office from a nearby county also investigated the shooting and found no wrongdoing. Tony Cox was unarmed and had committed no crime when he was pulled over by Michigan sheriff’s deputies and killed after they claimed to be in fear for their lives after he clasped both hands together and pointed towards them. However, they shot him nine times in the back as he was running away. The family has now filed a lawsuit. (Photos: Facebook and Attorney Joseph B. Sklar) But the family of Tony Cox, the 33-year-old Black man killed, is not buying it. Earlier this month, the victim’s mother, Tammy Cox, filed a wrongful death federal lawsuit against the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, accusing deputies of violating her son’s Fourth and 14th Amendment rights. The lawsuit states that...