'Go ahead and shoot me,' he told police. Was his killing justified?
“Go ahead and shoot me,” Spencer Mims III told police while he stood on his front porch holding a box-cutter to his own neck. “I’ve been putting up with this for 40 years and I’m tired.”Less than nine minutes later, police shot him to death.On Monday, a civil trial begins in the wrongful-death lawsuit that Mims’ family filed against against the city of Charlotte.The suit alleges the use of deadly force against a person having a mental breakdown was excessive and […]
