It’s been weeks since an Atlanta police officer killed a 44-year-old Black man named Linton Blackwell by shooting him 17 times in the back outside a bar, and police have released very little details to the family of the slain rapper known as B Green.
“It wasn’t just an execution but a new form of modern-day lynching,” said Blackwell’s cousin in a telephone interview with Atlanta Black Star.
“How do you justify shooting him 17 times in the back?” said Jimmy Hill, whose own son, Jimmy Atchison, was killed by Atlanta police in 2019.
A friend of Blackwell who was with him that night has made statements to local media contradicting the official police narrative. And Blackwell’s family has already retained an attorney…