STORE OWNER WHO SAW INCIDENT SAYS COPS ‘MURDERED’ ALTON STERLING, THEN ‘STOLE’ SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
The owner of a store where Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police said the cops “murdered” the Louisiana father and then took his video of the incident.
The 37-year-old Sterling was shot multiple times by police Tuesday outside of Abdullah Muflahi’s convenience store.
Video of the incident shows Sterling being shot multiple times while he’s pinned to the ground.
Police claim Sterling was armed, though the video shows, and Muflahi says, Sterling never brandished the weapon or threatened the officers.
“They shot him three times already, then they shot him another three times,” Muflahi told NBC News. “I believe he was murdered.”
Muflahi says Sterling had no idea why the police were there and wanted to know why they were “messing” with him.
“He just wanted to know what was going on. Why are they coming to arrest him?” Muflahi said. “He was asking them: ‘What’d I do wrong? What’s going on? What’d I do wrong? Why you messing with me?'”
Police say a 911 caller said Sterling threatened him with a gun.
Muflahi says he’s known Sterling for five to six years and has never so much as seen him in an argument.
“He was a nice guy, always smiling, always happy, always joking around with people,” Muflahi said. “He sits right outside the door. If there was anything that had happened, I think I would’ve heard it. I didn’t hear nothing.”
Muflahi says that even though Sterling had a gun in his pocket, it was still in his pocket after he was shot.
“I don’t think there was any way that he would’ve reached for it,” Muflahi said. “And if he would’ve reached for it, his hand would’ve still been in his pocket, or the gun would’ve been in his hand after they had killed him.”
Muflahi also told Daily Beast’s Justin Miller that “cops stole surveillance video after taking him to the station.”
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