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A Mississippi cop who shot a Black 15-year-old in the head won’t face criminal charges
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4 months after a Mississippi police officer shot a Black 15-year-old, Jaheim McMillan, within the head exterior a Household Greenback retailer, the state’s Division of Public Security has launched video footage of the encounter, following the state legal professional common’s announcement Wednesday {that a} grand jury discovered no proof of legal wrongdoing by legislation enforcement.
The capturing of McMillan in Gulfport on October 6 sparked months of protest, after some witnesses exterior the shop mentioned he was unarmed and had his fingers up, and that he lay on the sidewalk for minutes with out medical care as blood poured from his head. The officer who shot McMillan, Kenneth Nassar, who’s white, mentioned the teenager turned towards him with a gun.
The video footage, together with dash-cam footage, was launched Wednesday to native journalists. It reveals McMillan and one other teen fleeing a parked automotive in entrance of the shop after a police car enters the lot. Each teenagers run in the identical route, away from the police car, however as an officer comes towards them, McMillan turns and flees in the wrong way, again towards the doorway of the shop. As he runs, one other officer, Nassar, approaches and shortly fires eight pictures at him. McMillan is mendacity on the bottom wounded inside about 5 seconds of exiting the automotive.
Legislation enforcement edited the video, freezing it at sure factors to indicate that McMillan is holding an object that resembles a firearm earlier than Nassar shoots him. No less than seven minutes go earlier than McMillan is obtainable medical care.
Three different teenagers had been within the automotive with McMillan and the opposite boy who fled; the video reveals them following orders to get on the bottom close to the car with their fingers out, and the police arrest them whereas McMillan bleeds close by. At one level, one of many teenagers asks Nassar to supply McMillan some help. “Sir, are you able to please examine on him? I believe he’s lifeless,” the teenager says, in line with the Huffington Submit, which obtained extra video by a data request.
McMillan died from his wounds two days later in a hospital.
The police say they had been responding to a 911 grievance about teenagers in a silver Kia Soul who had been “brandishing firearms” at a passing motorist and sporting camouflage masks. Based on a redacted report from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, printed by the Mississippi Free Press, Nassar mentioned that he gave verbal instructions for McMillan to cease working and drop his weapon, and that McMillan didn’t comply.
After the capturing, investigators interviewed the 4 different teenagers. The 16-year-old boy who fled with McMillan mentioned he didn’t hear any of the officers give instructions to place down weapons, and that he may solely hear gunshots. One other teen who remained within the automotive mentioned he heard officers yelling however couldn’t make out the phrases as a result of the automotive door was shut, and added that he didn’t see a weapon in McMillan’s hand when McMillan fled. Two different boys mentioned McMillan had a pistol on him; one mentioned McMillan didn’t elevate it or level it towards anybody, and the opposite mentioned he didn’t assume McMillan would hearth it towards an officer.
As different officers arrived to the scene, Nassar instructed considered one of them that he noticed a gun in McMillan’s hand whereas McMillan was working, however that McMillan didn’t seem to have the gun in his possession when Nassar handcuffed him afterward and turned over his physique. Officers later found a gun within the parking zone.
A grand jury heard proof earlier this month and “discovered no legal conduct on behalf of the officer concerned,” the state legal professional common’s workplace introduced on Wednesday, offering no additional particulars on the components the jury thought of.
As I beforehand reported, McMillan’s mom, Katrina Mateen, and different supporters have been calling for the discharge of body-cam video for months, saying they didn’t belief the police’s model of occasions and needed to see footage themselves. Mateen instructed me that when she went to the Household Greenback retailer after the capturing, she tried to run previous officers to see whether or not the boy mendacity on the bottom was her son, however that an officer handcuffed her and instructed her to “shut up.”
McMillan would have turned 16 earlier this month. Days after his birthday, protesters gathered exterior the Household Greenback retailer to recollect him. “My son, he was a goal,” Mateen instructed me, crying. “I couldn’t be there for my son.”
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Arizona State eyes first win against an SEC opponent vs. Mississippi State
Mississippi State at Arizona State, Saturday, 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)
BetMGM College Football Odds: Arizona State by 6 1/2.
Series record: First meeting.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
Arizona State and Mississippi State both had dominant wins in the season-opening weekend and now have a tougher challenge when they face each other on Saturday night. The Sun Devils are trying to build off an impressive 48-7 win over Wyoming and prove they might be a factor in the Big 12 race. Arizona State has never beaten an SEC opponent. Mississippi State plays its second game under new coach Jeff Lebby. The Bulldogs beat Eastern Kentucky 56-7 in their season opener..
KEY MATCHUP
Mississippi State QB Blake Shapen vs. the Arizona State defense. The Sun Devils scored a touchdown on the second play of their opener when Zyrus Fiaseu picked off a pass and returned it to the end zone. It was one of two interceptions on the day for Arizona State. Shapen had a great debut against Eastern Kentucky but will face a much tougher defense on Saturday.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Mississippi State: Shapen had a terrific first game with the Bulldogs, throwing for 247 yards and three touchdowns while also running for 44 yards and a TD against Eastern Kentucky. The 6-foot-1 senior played the previous three college seasons at Baylor with mixed success. Shapen has thrown a TD pass in 12 consecutive games dating to this time at Baylor in 2022.
Arizona State: RB Cam Skattebo led a balanced rushing attack against Wyoming, gaining 49 yards and scoring a touchdown. Skattebo was a do-it-all player for Arizona State last year, spending time at quarterback, running back and receiver. The Sun Devils might not need him to be as versatile this season, but he’s still a threat from just about anywhere on the field.
FACTS & FIGURES
Mississippi State had six different players score touchdowns against Eastern Kentucky. … The Bulldogs’ 93.7 passing grade in the opener was the second-best mark in all of the FBS, trailing only Purdue, according to Pro Football Focus. … Mississippi State’s Kevin Coleman Jr. returned five punts for 117 yards last week. … Arizona State was credited with just two missed tackles on defense in the opener, tied for the third-lowest tally among FBS schools. … Skattebo is 270 rushing yards away from reaching 3,000 in his career. He is 342 all-purpose yards away from reaching 4,000 and 202 receiving yards away from reaching 1,000.
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How Mississippi State football is preparing for Arizona State weather, late kickoff
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STARKVILLE — Mississippi State football is preparing to play a team that, at least through one game, looks vastly improved from last season.
Coach Jeff Lebby admitted on Monday, and Bulldog players have noticed it too after Arizona State (1-0) thumped Wyoming 48-7 in its opener.
MSU (1-0) must also factor in the late kickoff that is scheduled Saturday (9:30 p.m. CT, ESPN) at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Mississippi is hot, but so is Arizona — a different kind of hot, too.
Modifications and remedies are being made, such as the team leaving Starkville on Thursday instead of how it normally would on a Friday for a Saturday game.
“For our guys, just knowing exactly what we are getting into,” Lebby said. “We continue to talk about that through yesterday and this morning and (are) having those conversations to understand what it’s going to look like late in the week. We got to do a great job from a preparation standpoint of how we are hydrating, how we are eating and how we are resting to give us the ability to go on the road on this flight and be able to be at our best Saturday night.”
Just this week, Phoenix broke a record with its 100th straight day of 100-degree temperatures. According to AccuWeather, the high on Saturday in Tempe will be 107 degrees with a low of 86. The temperature should dip to around 91 near kickoff with a humidity of 24%.
“Coach Lebby has already been harping on that,” tight end Justin Ball said. “We’ve already been hydrating and making sure we are getting rest every single day. We leave on Thursday, so we already talked about the plan to make sure we are hydrating the entire plane ride there, making sure when we get there we get acclimated as quickly as you can and just staying together. Making sure we’re focused, make sure we keep the goal first and then execute the game plan.”
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Mississippi State played well the last time it played in Arizona
The Bulldogs played Arizona in Tucson two seasons ago. They squandered a pedestrian Wildcats team 39-17. Kickoff for that game was at 8 p.m. PST though the temperature was 84 degrees at game time.
Not many players remain on Mississippi State’s roster from that 2022 season. But the ones who are, like linebacker Nic Mitchell, can benefit from the experience and also share it with teammates.
“We know it’s going to be a long flight, so we know we got to be hydrated,” Mitchell said. “It gives people experience that have done it before and they can tell the young guys how it’s going to be in the flight, how you got to hydrate and stuff like that.”
Sam Sklar is the Mississippi State beat reporter for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at ssklar@gannett.com and follow him on X @sklarsam_.
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Playing for Mississippi State not an option for Arizona State back Kyson ‘Sipp’ Brown
Arizona State forces 3 turnovers in win over Wyoming to start 2024
All offseason, coach Kenny Dillingham preached getting turnovers. Forty seconds into the season’s first game, the defense produced its first one.
Sophomore running back Kyson Brown is one of the faster players on the Arizona State football team. But Brown seems to have a little more pep in his step this week. Why? Well, the Sun Devils (1-0) are set to take on Mississippi State (1-0) at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Mountain America Stadium.
Sure an SEC opponent is enough to get any athlete fired up. But the 6-foot, 200-pounder hails from Tupelo, Mississippi, which is where he got his nickname, Sipp. Tupelo is 67 miles north of the Mississippi State campus in Starkville that Sipp has visited a handful of times.
“I have family, growing up they were all Mississipp State fans and some Ole Miss fans,” he said. “Some of my family are debating whether they want to cheer for me or not. It’s going to be good. A lot of hometown friends. Got a couple guys I went to high school with there. It’s going to be good seeing those guys and hopefully, we compete at a good level and get the W.”
Brown, a mechanical engineering major, is enrolled in ASU’s Barret honors program, He emerged as one of the team’s most improved players. He saw some time on special teams as a true freshman in 2023 and has set himself up for a bigger role, although the ASU backfield has a lot of depth.
In the last week’s 48-7 win over Wyoming, Brown pitched in with six rushing attempts for 25 yards and two receptions for 73 yards. His 68-yard touchdown reception was the longest play from scrimmage that ASU had on the night.
“It felt amazing just to get back in the end zone again,” Brown said. “You come out of high school, you know I’m used to being in the end zone every game, all the time. That play, I knew — once I made the first guy miss — I knew I wasn’t going to let anybody catch me.”
Brown lived in Mississippi until moving to Lancaster, Texas, outside of Dallas, after his sophomore year of high school. He sat out junior year after the transfer. As a senior he averaged 9.5 yards per carry, finishing with 707 yards and 11 touchdowns on 74 carries while adding 14 receptions for 168 yards and two touchdowns.
Sitting out his junior year hurt his recruiting, but he still had notable offers from Purdue, Missouri and Houston. The balance of his options were lower-profile schools. Mississippi State didn’t offer.
He is happy with the end result. A place on the ASU football roster. In the offseason, he worked on his agility, flexibility and catching the ball, which was evident in his recent scoring play.
“We all have the big-play potential,” he said of his fellow running backs. “I feel my role is to make plays, wherever they put me be able to perform.”
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