Florida Sheriff Fires Deputy After Murdering USAF Special Operations Airman Roger Fortson

The tragic case of a sheriff's deputy murdering an innocent American in the Air Force has prompted a statement that questions how the sheriff will overhaul the entire system.

SHALIMAR, Fla. (May 31, 2024) – The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) has terminated Deputy Eddie Duran following the completion of an internal administrative investigation into the May 3 death of Roger Fortson . the use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable and therefore violated agency policy.

OCSO's internal administrative investigation, initiated immediately following the shooting, is separate from the active criminal investigation that remains ongoing with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The sheriff's office notably reduced the assassination to a simple statement.

“This tragic incident should never have happened,” said Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden. “The objective facts do not support the use of deadly force as an appropriate response to Mr. Fortson’s actions. Mr. Fortson did not commit any crime. By all accounts, he was an exceptional aviator and individual.

So why did Aden's team use such excessive force to assassinate “an exceptional aviator”?

To put this in perspective, let's look at another recent incident involving OCSO. Have you ever heard the sound of an acorn falling on top of your car? Can you imagine that?

Two OCSO deputies bizarrely claimed they heard gunshots and started shooting. in their own car despite absolutely zero real threat and with the risk of hitting the suspect they had just searched, handcuffed and put in that car.

Imagine rolling over, yelling “I'm hit” and throwing a magazine into your own police car after… SQUIRREL.

Really. The video of these two is a keystone of Kops Komedy. They even thought the sound of an acorn hitting the roof of a car meant they were being “hit” and then fantasized about their vest stopping a bullet. They thought they were going to die. Turns out they were just scared by a squirrel in the middle of the day.

So, it should come as no surprise to anyone: This new investigative report reveals that the sheriff's office has a culture of shooting first, killing innocent people and asking questions later.

According to the internal affairs report, Duran told investigators that when Fortson opened the door, he saw aggression in the airman's eyes. He said he shot because: “I'm standing there thinking I'm about to get shot, I'm about to die.”

“It’s him or me at this point and I have to, I have to act rather than react,” he told investigators.

Absurd. Duran was literally responding to a call. He arrived, knocked on the wrong door and then killed an innocent man for no reason.

He reacted in an extremely unprofessional manner. Why was he there, reacting in the first place? Apparently, this was to discharge his weapon and carry out the extrajudicial killing of a person he had been fraudulently trained to view as a threat.

Fortson, who had no criminal record, lived alone and had no guests that afternoon. He was on a video call with his girlfriend, who told investigators they did not argue. She said Fortson was playing a video game.

An apartment complex manager called the sheriff's office at 4:24 p.m., and Duran arrived three minutes later. He met the manager in the parking lot and she directed him to Fortson's apartment on the fourth floor, telling him there were frequent arguments and body camera video broadcasts.

However, 911 records show that deputies had never been called to Fortson's apartment before, but had been called to a nearby unit 10 times in the previous eight months, including once for a disturbance domestics.

Duran and Foreman couldn't have been further apart in terms of experience and training. A clumsy, trigger-happy deputy stupidly discharged his gun at an intelligent, quiet professional.

Foreman served as a special missions Airman on the AC-130J Ghostrider with the 4th Special Operations Squadron. He had earned the Air Medal with combat equipment.

Related field news:

…an investigative report links two city officials to the secret hate society that was once violently active in the area. […] The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent the police chief a report linking the officers to the Klan based on information from the FBI.

And the lack of professionalism and clumsiness of American law enforcement in the targeted killings of black men in the military has been a long-known problem.

Briefly, Williams was a 21-year-old black man in May 1960 (he was serving as a U.S. Army paratrooper) when two white police officers apparently took him at night to a county jail where he was beaten to death by police batons.

Don’t underestimate Duran’s statement: “him or me at this point and I need to act» as being anything other than politically motivated.