In what has become a disturbingly familiar pattern, an unarmed Black man was pronounced dead at the hands of a law enforcement officer on July 8.
Jonathan Sanders, 39, was killed in Stonewall, Mississippi after allegedly being put in a chokehold by officer Kevin Herrington.
According to C.J. Lawrence, one of the attorneys representing Sanders’s family, the victim was riding in his horse-drawn buggy on Wednesday evening around 10 and went to a local gas station. He witnessed a fight between Herrington and a second white man (who Sanders knew). After Sanders asked Herrington to leave the other man alone, Herrington allegedly threatened Sanders and used a racial slur.
