Broward County’s Black Lives Matter Alliance is praising the recent manslaughter indictment of Broward Sheriff’s deputy Peter Peraza.
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Peraza was charged for the deadly 2013 shooting of 33-year-old Jermaine McBean for carrying an air rifle. The officer claimed McBean failed to respond to orders to drop the rifle, though the victim was wearing headphones.
Representatives of the victim’s family are satisfied with the indictment but said it’s only the first step.
The group confirmed McBean’s family is pursuing a civil suit.
Peraza, 37, joined the sheriff’s office in February 2001 as a detention deputy. After a decade he attended a police academy to become a Department of Law Enforcement deputy and received more training to work road patrol.
