Arizona Cop Fatally Shoots Drug Suspect After Mistaking Pill Bottle for Gun

Suspect Rumain Brisbon was 34

Unarmed black man killed by white Phoenix officer (USA Today)

PHOENIX — The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the racially charged police incidents in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and elsewhere.

In Phoenix on Tuesday evening, a white police officer who was feeling threatened used lethal force on an unarmed black man. The incident left the officer unharmed and Brisbon, 34, dead with two bullet wounds in his torso at a north Phoenix apartment complex.

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