‘You’re Going to Kill Me?’: Newly Released Videos Show Unarmed Black Man’s Final Words Before Michigan Deputies Killed Him In Hail of Bullets After Accusing Him of a Crime with No Evidence

A Michigan sheriff’s office finally released body and dash cam videos of the shooting death of David Cox, an unarmed 33-year-old Black man who was shot and killed after he was pulled over for running a stop sign and accused of being involved in a “shots fired” call a week earlier. “They’re essentially just guessing,” said Joel Sklar in a telephone interview with Atlanta Black Star, who is the attorney representing Cox’s family in a wrongful death lawsuit. “There is no factual basis to connect Tony Cox or the vehicle he was in to the reported shots fired incident.” Tony Cox, a 33-year-old Black man, was unarmed when he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets by Michigan deputies after he was falsely accused of a crime. (Photo: Body camera and Facebook) “There’s no evidence that any vehicle was involved in a shooting. Nobody saw the shooter. Nobody saw shots from the vehicle. None of that.” But the video footage released this week by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office shows deputies were convinced he was the shooter, with one deputy even telling a dispatcher they had “confirmed” he was the shooter. The videos also show Cox was terrified...