Everybody agrees that the police shooting of Jermaine McBean was a tragedy.
The question is whether the shooting on July 31, 2013 at Green Tree Apartments in Oakland Park was manslaughter.
Or was the shooting justified because Broward Sheriff’s Dept. Peter Peraza saw McBean turn and point a rifle at him?
The case has become highly polarized and representative of the tensions between the police and the black community. McBean was African American.
There also is another element in this election year: politics.
Some charge that Peraza is the victim of a cynical ploy by State Attorney Mike Satz to win votes for his re-election campaign in the African American community.
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