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Kwadir Felton, 22, was shot in the face by Jersey City Police Sgt. Thomas McVicar on January 10, 2010, and went blind as a result. Yet it is Felton who faces up to 30 years in prison for aggravated assault of a police officer.
McVicar says he was forced to open fire because Felton, intending to rob him, pointed a gun at him, which was allegedly found lying next to Felton after he’d been shot.
But Felton, who was 18 at the time, adamantly denies that he was armed. He testified that he had just left a baby shower and was on his way to his girlfriend’s house when he heard someone call his name and say, “Yo, you little black mother fucker, you better get the fuck down before I blow your fucking brains out.”
“There’s no reason to have a weapon on me,” Felton told the courtroom. “That’s not me. I was raised better than that.”
Nevertheless, as happens in most cases with black defendants, the jury sided with the cop last month and found Felton guilty on all counts, including aggravated assault of an officer and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Upon hearing the verdict, Felton’s mother, Dawn Felton, who had recently undergone open heart surgery, “collapsed on the ground in uncontrollable sobs and kicked the bench near where she had collapsed,” according to The Jersey Journal.
Unable to calm her down (whatever that means), police officers “dragged her out of the courtroom.”
Meanwhile, Felton broke down sobbing and shouted at an officer, “I don’t understand! You didn’t have to shoot me in the head for no reason! You trying to charge me with something I didn’t do!”
Brooke Barnett, Felton’s attorney, has since filed a motion for a new trial, citing “prosecutorial misconduct” and calling the state’s evidence against Felton “absolutely and unequivocally contradicted, clearly causing a miscarriage of justice.”
Given the trauma and torment Felton has been forced to endure over the last four years, the injustice goes beyond the verdict. Felton testified at his trial that he lost the will to live due to his injuries and tried on multiple occasions to take his own life.
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