Travel request commissioned for the death of the ex-deputy, the death of the plane

For the first time, Chantimekki “Meka” Fortson, the mother of the US Senior flyer Roger Fortson, opposed the man who was accused of killing her son at a hearing on Tuesday.

It was unexpected, said family members. Meka Forton had to leave the courtroom to compose.

The application on Tuesday was to enable the northwest Florida area to enable the bond command for the representative of the former sheriff of the former Sheriff of Okaloosa, Eddie Duran, to leave the area of ​​northwest.

Defenders from Duran said the journey was so that Duran could visit his son in college and temporarily work with his family in Oklahoma. Duran's wife works as a sister.

Duran's lawyers said that the former deputy was no danger to the community, and there was no risk that he would avoid legal proceedings across the country, as his name and similarity were known.

Dozens gathered in the courtroom to support Fortson. After a powerful testimony of close friends and family members, including Meka Fortson, judge Lacey Powell Clark made the application and said she hadn't heard anything convincing to change the original arrangement of Richter Terrance Ketchel.

The news was a “little step in justice,” said Asya Goode, a friend of the Fortson family, who was one of those who spoke at the hearing to apply for Duran, asked the stay in northwest of Florida.

“(Roger) received no warning.” (This) is not just a tragedy, but a failure of every institution. ”

The 23 -year -old Roger Fortson, who was black, was shot on May 3, 2024 within seconds after the opening of his apartment door in Fort Walton Beach when Duran reacted to a reported domestic disorder that turned out to be wrong.

The 38 -year -old Duran has not guilty. In August, Duran was released with a bond of $ 100,000 with conditions that he could not have a firearm or left the area. He provides for up to 30 years in prison when he is convicted.

Meka Fortson slowly went to the witness stand and instructed most of her certificate to the judge. She said Roger “Breaking Current of Generation” in her family. She asked the judge to revoke Duran's bond.

“My prison is much worse than anyone else in which it will be,” she said.

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Last year Meka Fortson said that she was sometimes black. When she drove her car into her house, she said she didn't feel it.

“I hit the house and said the people in the car: 'You hit the house' and I said: 'When?' “She said. “I did an entire house and didn't feel it. I'm numb.”

Meka said she was with her son at the shootout in Facetime. She heard him ask Duran to help him. She heard him make his last breath.

In the year since the death of her son, she was unable to observe the Bodycam film material from the shootout.

“No, I'm just going on what people say,” she said.

After the hearing, the people gathered in front of the courthouse and sang: “Say his name Roger Fortson.” Grass root organizers with black life matter and party for socialism and liberation were also there.

Deanna Joseph von Black Lives Matter Braots came from Tampa to support. She said it was important to comment.

The first step was that the deputy was charged, she said.

“We want full accountability,” she said. “It is time to set legal precedents. We take a position and have a strong attitude that this is enough, enough is enough and we will no longer take it.”

Meka Fortson said she doesn't want the case to be her son's race. But she wants to close. And justice.

“I need the world to see what kind of man he was,” she said. “Not the color he was.”

The complaint claims that deputy Eddie Duran has used excessive and unconstitutional fatal violence.

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