Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has commuted the sentence of a White Fairfax County cop convicted in the 2023 shooting death of an unarmed Black shoplifting suspect.
“I have today used the executive clemency authority granted to me by the Constitution of Virginia and commuted the sentence imposed on Sgt. Wesley Shifflett, who was convicted of recklessly discharging a firearm by the Fairfax County Circuit Court,” Youngkin was quoted in a statement released by the governor’s office Sunday night.
Shifflett was convicted last fall on a reckless firing of a firearm charge in the 2023 death of Timothy Johnson, 37…