“The death of Banko Brown ... was nothing short of a lynching,” one speaker said of the shooting at a San Francisco Walgreens last week.
against the private security guard who allegedly shot and killed 24-year-old Banko Brown in front of a Walgreens store last week.
“We reviewed witness statements, statements from the suspect, and video footage of the incident and it does not meet the People’s burden to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that the suspect is guilty of a crime,” Jenkins said. Many expressed confusion as to why a security guard at Walgreens would be armed with a firearm in the first place.
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