“Family of Roger Heard Jr. demands transparency and accountability following fatal shooting at Chattanooga Speedway gas station”

The Chattanooga Times Free Press, in an article by Ellen Gerst, reported on a lawsuit filed by Wade, Grunberg & Wilson, LLC on behalf of the family of a man killed by police at a Speedway gas station in Chattanooga. After the plain clothes police officers attempted to arrest the man, gunfire was exchanged, and police officers shot him 14 times. His family contended that officers used excessive force and violated his constitutional rights by continuing to shoot him once he was on the ground.

The article reported on a press conference and quoted Jonathan Grunberg:

Heard's parents spoke to the media Wednesday morning, along with Poston and Atlanta-based civil rights lawyers Jonathan Grunberg and Mark Begnaud. They're continuing calls from the community for additional footage of the shooting to be released publicly, attorneys said, and also seeking records of texts and radio traffic exchanged during the incident.

‘There wasn't an indication that, say, this was a warrant being served for murder or something like that,’ Grunberg, one of the family's attorneys, said. ‘Again, I want to bring it back to the fact that, at the time that warrant was being served, Mr. Heard was not somehow committing a violent crime that was presenting a danger to those around him. He was slowly driving through a gas station when he was stopped.’

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