\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe family of a Vicksburg man once charged in a high-profile 2013 murder case has hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump after the man was shot and killed by a Florida deputy.Authorities in Clay County, Florida, said deputies encountered 48-year-old Morris Davis last Saturday while responding to assist children and families at a home. Investigators said Davis was armed with two knives, ran from the house and resisted deputies when they attempted to take him into custody.According to the sheriff\u2019s office, deputies used Tasers on Davis, but they were ineffective. A deputy then shot Davis in the yard.Davis\u2019 family disputes the sheriff\u2019s office account, claiming he was already on the ground and no longer a threat when the shots were fired.During a public gathering following the shooting, Crump called for the release of body camera footage from the encounter.\u201cSo we need the body camera videos to be released from the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Department,\u201d Crump said. \u201cTransparency plus accountability equals trust.\u201dDavis had ties to Vicksburg and was charged with second-degree murder in the 2013 killing of Michael Thomas in the city.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The family of a Vicksburg man once charged in a high-profile 2013 murder case has hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump after the man was shot and killed by a Florida deputy.<\/p>\n
Authorities in Clay County, Florida, said deputies encountered 48-year-old Morris Davis last Saturday while responding to assist children and families at a home. Investigators said Davis was armed with two knives, ran from the house and resisted deputies when they attempted to take him into custody.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff\u2019s office, deputies used Tasers on Davis, but they were ineffective. A deputy then shot Davis in the yard.<\/p>\n
Davis\u2019 family disputes the sheriff\u2019s office account, claiming he was already on the ground and no longer a threat when the shots were fired.<\/p>\n
During a public gathering following the shooting, Crump called for the release of body camera footage from the encounter.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we need the body camera videos to be released from the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Department,\u201d Crump said. \u201cTransparency plus accountability equals trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis had ties to Vicksburg and was charged with second-degree murder in the 2013 killing of Michael Thomas in the city.<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a Vicksburg man once charged in a high-profile 2013 murder case has hired civil rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7852,2335,32280,3487,49181,11853,1089,28,34967,30,29,660,2631,215,91876,57090,96817,118500],"class_list":["post-277548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accountability","tag-ben-crump","tag-body-camera-video","tag-clay-county","tag-davis","tag-department","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-florida-deputy","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-office","tag-sheriff","tag-shooting","tag-taser","tag-tie","tag-trust","tag-vicksburg-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}