So the murderer is not sitting in jail. .

@Sai_327

27 күн бұрын

Right, and he killed an American Airman.

@Mina.15

26 күн бұрын

Nope

When a police officer is killed in the line of duty hundreds of officers from all over the state come and support him and his family over this senseless death. How many law enforcement officers showed up to show the family that they support this beautiful young man that was killed.

@jeffreymcfadden9403

29 күн бұрын

None.

@bartlawhorn2762

29 күн бұрын

You really think they would’ve been let in. Grow up people and stop being racist

@lj6962

29 күн бұрын

Although,it’s a tough call in this situation. To not escalate emotions at this very emotional, private time. Respecting the family’s wishes is best.

@lennysmith8851

29 күн бұрын

@OldVeteran420 all due respect to Roger and his service but he opened a door to a police officer with a gun in his hand. The officer announced his department twice. Ik emotions are high but honestly do you think this was a wise choice? Is that how you answer the door to a police officer?

@danielweir5142

29 күн бұрын

@@lennysmith8851 Honestly everyone's policy should to never open the door to the police, if they have a warrant there coming in anyway. People can here just fine through a door when you use your voice

Service members should be safe on American soil ☹️. There is 0 excuses or gaslighting on it too.

@beaversixniner

29 күн бұрын

💯

Defending his country, only his country killed him, sad.

@johnkarpierz9147

29 күн бұрын

People who defended this country include evil people like Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh, and Klansmen Democrats. A little food for thought there.

@dm9022

25 күн бұрын

HIS COUNTRY DIDNT KILL HIM A CORRUPT DEPUTY DID !! ITS DISGUSTING AND SO VERY SAD !! I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST IVE HEARD ... I WILL PRAY FOR HIS FAMILY .... AND PRAY FOR JUSTICE ... 🙏

@johnkarpierz9147

25 күн бұрын

@@dm9022 Sad and stupid response.

Qualified Immunity most be cancelled or drastically curtailed. You must call your representatives and demand change.

@educationiskey3331

29 күн бұрын

Sorry but our human species are dumber then 🪨 and so they will sit idlely by while being confused, saying to themselves "how do I contact my representative?" Old pple don't do nothing, Millennials Barely do anything, Generation x are Iike trees the forest door nothing. Why do you think there's more people on social media than people who are actually doing something about a situation? Rhetorical question.

And here comes the cover up

Lord have mercy. He was so young. 😢

@zackfrm330

29 күн бұрын

all he had to do was just put the gun in his waistband or pocket and how did he not hear the cop announce himself? so weird and you'd think he would have better firearm skills for being in the armed forces

@danielweir5142

29 күн бұрын

@@zackfrm330 so the pig who was hiding from the eyehole so he could not be visually identified has no blame? If you support pigs over Troops you are the problem

RIP so bummed to see a young serviceman taken in this way.

Rest in Peace, Airman. I hope that justice is done.

He was Executed...

Rest in peace brother! A disheartening thing to even hear about.

What criminal manner he was in his house with a legal gun.

My Deepest Condolences to the Beautiful Family and the Air Force

RIP I’m sorry this happened. I truly hope he gets Justice!

Rip brother pray for you family

Rest In Paradise and thank you for your service brother 🙏🏿 🫡

Yeah the cop is screwed. So many high ranking service members in attendance. I bet some pressure will come down from the top to get the DA charge the officer

@tienvala3152

28 күн бұрын

Yeah... A three star General speak at the funeral of a senior airman meaning this thing is serious...that cop career is done for.

He needs to be put away and Jail with a Lawsuit against him and the city of Florida

Supporting the police cost the dude his life. Where are the pro second amendment cowards??

My condolences goes out to family 😭

Cop did not stay in front of door...y he keep moving..

Prayers 😢

Prayers

REST IN POWER Mr ROGER FORTSON 💯 My Father (Korean War) My Older Brother (Vietnam) Myself all US AIR FORCE 🌅 My two daughters Air Force ROTC

I got emotional just watching the tid bits of the funeral. The mother crying over her son broke me in tears

on leave = paid vacation

Who sent the officer to that door and when it was from the police office why did he talk to the young kid in the lobby of the apartment building in the video footage?

@jameylane1591

29 күн бұрын

Find the full body cam. A manager tells him to go to 1401 for a disturbance and that's where he goes. He yells he's the cops and the IDIOT meets him at the door with a gun in his hand. Not smart, I don't recommend anyone do this when law enforcement is at your door.

@rosea5864

29 күн бұрын

Why did he answer the door with a gun?

@danielweir5142

29 күн бұрын

@@rosea5864 Because this is America and that is one of our Rights? Castle doctrine ring a bell? go be a pig supporter somewhere else. We actually like to Honor our Troops here

@LoneWolfAnnie

27 күн бұрын

⁠@@rosea5864LEO did not announce himself the first time he pounded on Roger's door. LEO was also not visible from the peep hole until final last knock. Roger was playing video games and facetiming with his girlfriend while this was happening. he didn't hear or see who was at his door. LEO was also going off of, "fourth-party information" as stated by dispatch in initial call. female was not certain of location the first two times she was asked by LEO. going off of half-ass information, LEO should have exercised a whole f*cking lot more diligence and discretion. in an age where criminals pretend to be LEO's, Airman Fortson had every right to answer his door armed. at no time did he raise his weapon.

R.i.p brother the harvell family will love and miss you

Them good ol boys with the sharpshooter shades preaching support the troops are awfully quiet.

RIP my friend 😭😭😭😭😭🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Funny how the same crowd that supports Stand Your Ground also supports a Sheriff who executed an innocent Airman in his own home. I wonder why?

We will never get justice in this country .

Omg!!!!😢😢

I do not have much faith that the police will not find bac reason to condone it!!! Freakin ridiculous!!!! He should be fired and jailed!!!!

Watch the video,....if in Texas no charges would be brought

@curtislowe1454

29 күн бұрын

That's where you're wrong. It's firearm was to his side. Legally that's not a threat...

@lennysmith8851

29 күн бұрын

@@curtislowe1454 The gun just being in his hand is a threat

@cwhulke97

26 күн бұрын

@@lennysmith8851 WRONG! Supreme court has ruled that the mere presence of a firearm is NO EXCUSE for the use of deadly force!!!!! It was a bad shoot! This officer needs to be charged, point blank, period, end of story!

@lennysmith8851

26 күн бұрын

@@cwhulke97 yes the mere presence. Meaning properly holstered or in your waistband. Not in your fucking hand.

@cwhulke97

26 күн бұрын

@@lennysmith8851 What are you new??? The Supreme Courts decision doesn't say anything about location of a weapon, in your hand, holstered or otherwise...you're trying to justify this shoot because you're a blue line bootlicker...plain and simple! Well when they come to your door to take you off to the death camps ala WWII style....Don't beg for my help...Cause I won't be there to help you...The facts DON'T support this shoot....because there 1.) the gun while present was not in a firing position to take a shot at the officer, 2.) Finger clearly not on the trigger, 3.) Left hand raised as if to say "hold on a second officer", 4.) No verbal warning was given by the officer to drop the weapon, although I know he doesn't have to, he should have seeing the position of the weapon, Instead he just jerked his gun and started shooting, meaning he was SCARED from the get go!!! 5.) Officer fired 6 rounds before ever voicing anything further verbally By your rationale, we no longer have any rights in this country and can no longer exercise our 2nd Amendment or 4th Amendment rights, and that Officers rights trump EVERYTHING....and that's COMPLETELY WRONG!!! You need to re-examine your thought processes!

On leave. Notice they don't say paid or unpaid??

💔

This is so sad

America America what’s up you take your own too😢

Man this is sad and tragic. I don’t think Roger was a bad guy but he got himself killed by opening the door with a gun in his hand to a police officer. Anybody with common sense knows that would not end well.

@georgecampbell7415

27 күн бұрын

Well I guess he was thinking as a service man

@lennysmith8851

27 күн бұрын

@@georgecampbell7415 is that something they teach in the air force? 🤣

@hellishcyberdemon7112

3 күн бұрын

​@@lennysmith8851 yea you carry a weapon in the military you dense or something?

🙏🙏Go to the family from Hattiesburg ms.❤💔💪🙏🙏Family ❤IN HATTIESBURG MS.

Was the deputy at the funeral

TIL Valhalla!!!!!!!! Young man!!!

We learn the hardest story here on earth. Fly angel maker awaits😢😢😢😢😢😢

Why were the LEO’s no where to be found at his funeral….

Senior Airman? Should be Buck-Sargent!

@johnsmith-tj4oj

29 күн бұрын

So young so sad god bless him .❤

Buh Bye America

@johnkarpierz9147

29 күн бұрын

America is already gone. Where were these "heroes" to stop that?

He is on leave what the hell is wrong with American justice system?? 😢the sheriff needs to be behind bar’s pending cover up investigation he took someone’s life

@deliveranceikosimi6992

18 күн бұрын

Can you imagine,this is so sad,the Airforce as to do something about this big time ,That deputy as be jailed and sentence to death,this is in Justice,Hod help American

Omg omg omg

My condolences to this young man, but why would he open a door holding a gun in his hand after the police ID himself verbally and with hard knocks on the door. The officer did everything right as far as training, are we to percieve that this officer did not believe his life was not in danger after he identified himself and the person on the other side of the door opens the door with a gun in his hand? Who would tell their child, if you hear a loud knock on the door, and the person knocking says he's the police, and you don't believe it, open the door with your gun pointing to the ground , is this what you would tell your child to do?

The Diddy video was also released the same day as well. It’s not a coincidence

So what is going to happen I will tell you qualify immunity and nothing…….nothing at all.

Titled: "America's Darker Sister"---response to Poet/essayist Langston Hughes poem "I Too Sing America!" Dear Langston Hughes I too sing America! But America has yet to sing me From sea to shining sea Her freedoms Continue to elude me For I am America's Darker sister Who birthed Her darker girls and boys That grew up And were sent away To fight in distant wars In far-away lands For the freedom of some unknown man.......... While in the land of their birth Their lives continue to have no value no worth............... Yes! Mr. Hughes I am the Darker sister Who stood on this land's shores Waving my flag high Singing in unison with Lady Liberty Our voices raised to the sky............ "Give us your weak Your tired, your weary," We sang......... "Those persecuted and longing to be free!" Yet, those freedoms we've fought so gallantly For others Somehow continue to Elude My darker brothers, sisters and me I walked in the twilight With Dr. King And was inspired by his plea "To let freedom ring"........ I felt hope-filled By his speech "I Have A Dream," Believing our nation Was headed for better things........... But! Mr. Hughes The dream has yet to be realized For there remain the echoes Of my darker brothers and sisters cries You see, I remain the darker sister, mother, Daughter, brother, father Shouting out for all to see Those freedoms granted So easily to others............. Continue to bypass My darker brothers, sisters & Me.................... BMW December 29, 2001

I guess I am no longer a member of the Conservative "club".

Averysad and difficult day for all involved. His family, air force family as well as the officer and his family. People have to realize that police have been ambusheed and they also have a family to go home to. Wish none of this happened. Be a learning experience for all gun owners. DO Not open the door with a rifle in hand. Especially if there has been previous police activity there. The officer didn’t seem confrontational prior, but I’m still saddened to see so many hurting people. Heartfelt Condolences

😢so, so, sad. A unnecessary killing

@johnkarpierz9147

29 күн бұрын

The guy did have a gun, you know.

@rogercruz6332

29 күн бұрын

​@@johnkarpierz9147he never point the gun against the pig,Imbecile SMARTASS!!!

@curtislowe1454

29 күн бұрын

Yes he does and it's obviously legal since he was in the Air Force.. furthermore his firearm was to his side it was not raised! That is legally considered not a threat. The cop in some way shape or form is going to have to answer for this. Not to mention when he knocked on the door he moved to the side so that you couldn't see him in the peep hole.

@danielweir5142

29 күн бұрын

@@johnkarpierz9147 Yes this is the United States of America where it is a god given right to own and hold a firearm in your own home If pigs are so afraid of the American citizens then they should not be pigs at all

@johnkarpierz9147

29 күн бұрын

@@curtislowe1454 Are you really that stupid? He's got a gun, and he's not gonna use it? There's just no reason for a cop to do anything with you people, is there?

Rest in paradise brother that devil take ur life for no reason

@HarryGrace-eo3qt

29 күн бұрын

Here we go with the low IQ comment.

@HarryGrace-eo3qt

29 күн бұрын

When the police say open the door, you don’t come to the door with a firearm idiot.

Benjamin Krupp is a grifter. Allowing him to defile this kids death is sad

So why did the police gun down this young airman. ???? No solid facts out here just hate an emotions.

@lennysmith8851

29 күн бұрын

Ummm there is very solid facts: you can look up the full body cam footage on KZread and it will show you from start to finish what happened. The deputy shot him because “this young airman” pulled a gun on him when he opened the door. I don’t know why Roger did that but that is indisputable fact.

@LoneWolfAnnie

27 күн бұрын

⁠@@lennysmith8851Airman Fortson didn't "pull a gun" on LEO. he was holding it in his hand pointed at the floor, no finger on trigger. holding a gun in your hand is not the definition of a "deadly threat". by that standard, a hunter in the woods can be shot because he's holding a gun. Okaloosa is a f*cking clownshow of a sheriff's office - unloading on their own vehicle with someone inside because another LEO mistook a falling acorn for a gunshot. i understand "backing the blue", but they are not infallible. i'm a USAF veteran. if you wrong one of us, you wrong us all. and this was wrong.

@lennysmith8851

27 күн бұрын

@@LoneWolfAnnie a hunter in the woods holding a rifle is not the same as somebody opening the door with a pistol in their hand to a police officer that has announced himself. That was a bad decision by Fortson and it got him killed. And yes holding a gun in your hand is threatening in nature. It’s why you and 99% of gun owners don’t open the door to police officers the way Fortson did. It’s common sense.

@lennysmith8851

27 күн бұрын

@@LoneWolfAnnie also i’m not defending deputy Acorn.

@callistoscali4344

25 күн бұрын

​@@lennysmith8851He did not announce initially. The police acted like a thug initially. He had to get the weapon because he thought someone was coming to harm him.

🪽🙏

Our police officers investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing.

The Split continues! We don't even have names for it anymore. But the splits in the Republican Party can not be clearer. Pro Fascist State vs Pro 2nd Amendment. Pro Israel vs MAGA.

Football players . Hockey players , Socker players , Boxing and MMA have contact , But police cry like little babies when touched . Drag out the crying towels and mop buckets people the police are in town . Put your ear plugs in so you won't have to hear police cry .

did you put his gun in the casket

@kinglouistexas

29 күн бұрын

Confiscated by police as evidence.

All this will not bring him back. Saying it’s racial is a lie. Cop knocked twice and held sheriff department and he still came to the door with a gun in his hand. He should’ve never opened the door. Cop should’ve never shot him. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Very sad. My question is why did he open the door holding a gun?

He was a thug.

@shemmyz3287

29 күн бұрын

Your mama and grandma are thugs .. matter of fact you're from Russia.. troll..

@Leonora485

29 күн бұрын

@johnkarpierz9147 You sound silly making such an assumption. If only you had heard the way his superiors in the armed forces spoke of him, you would realize how narrowminded you sound. Some people are always making uninformed assumptions about people based upon stereotypes which is totally stupid.

@asia332

29 күн бұрын

A “thug” that protected your sorry inbreed “Make America Great”, social media bullying ass safe from harm. Sir, grow a pair of balls and realize the man you didn’t want in this country saved IT and you. What have you done for it? Don’t answer, your previous response tells more than your AI generated response ever will.

@johnkarpierz9147

29 күн бұрын

@Leonora485 Sounds like a mindless schill. He's not being judged for his past bravery, but his recent criminality. Not all troops are heroes. Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh are proof. You sound like a Nazi or a Soviet when you mindlessly schill for them. We as a free people need to be capable of critical thinking, otherwise liberty is useless.

@johnkarpierz9147

29 күн бұрын

@@Leonora485 I'm not assuming anything. There was a criminal report and bodycam footage. It shows him risking his life in a criminal manner.

He shouldn’t have pulled a gun on a police officer.

@theconceptofmentalwellness355

29 күн бұрын

Whatever

@sarzozasarzoza2890

29 күн бұрын

I agree..who answers the door with a gun, even in your own home.

@adrianf7732

29 күн бұрын

That cop is a gutless punk afraid of his own shadow.

@rossfuller8025

29 күн бұрын

if you can't answer your door with your weapon pointed at the ground then we don't have a second amendment; additionally, rules of engagement for officers state their must be intent to utilize deadly force - zero intent as the airman never raised his weapon, nor was he given even a second to drop his weapon. if you want to live in a fascist police state that's your business, buddy, but i prefer FREEDOM. 🇺🇸

@amaru427

29 күн бұрын

Boot lickers have no rights because YOU don't know any of them. He is in his own home non threatening. Asshats were not even at the correct place morons!

He’s should have clearly announced He was armed n not opened the door Call for a supervisor at It’s still wrong At every level

Police Chief..... sorry yawl, but deputy with no name and never charged in murder unable to attend..........on paid vacation leave at disneyland, lets respect his privacy, beside yawl gonna forget about it soo, mom gets paid, deputy gets promoted, works out all around