re: Hoover AL held emergency executive meeting. Protesters now outside Mayors house.

I would never own a cat and any dog I own is well trained and has regular access to the outside, so that would never be a problem for me.





Hoover officials apologize to EJ Bradford's family

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Hoover mayor Frank Brocato, Police Chief Nick Derzis, and City Councilman Derrick M. Murphy apologized to the family of E.J. Bradford, Jr., who was killed by a Hoover police officer at the Riverchase Galleria on Thanksgiving night, in a meeting Tuesday evening in a second-floor conference room at the Westin in downtown Birmingham.

The apology was for initially identifying Bradford as the shooter in a dispute that led to the wounding of 18-year-old Brian Wilson and 12-year-old Molly Davis, not for the subsequent police shooting of Bradford.

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“I think it went well with the mayor,” E.J. Bradford, Sr. said of the meeting. “He was very considerate. I saw the emotion in his face. He had to collect himself. He felt it in his heart.”

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“The mayor was shaking like a leaf,” said Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson, who attended and helped coordinate the meeting. “The family was crying; the mayor was about to cry; I was crying.”

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Bradford, Sr. said he “kind of” accepted the apology conveyed by Derzis. “Borderline,” is how he described it. “I know he has people to report to, including the mayor. I’ll let them work that out.”

The family is still incensed that the parents did not receive confirmation that it was their son that was killed until the father spoke with a Hoover Detective whom he knew at 4:53 a.m. Friday

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Bradford, Sr., who once worked for the Birmingham Police Department, said the family still wants to see all video of the deadly encounter between their son and the police, including mall and bodycam footage if it exists. He acknowledges the decision to release the video is in the hands of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, not with the city of Hoover.

“ALEA’s going to try to hold it and go through every angle; I give them that,” he said. “But pressure needs to be put on them to release it as soon as possible.”

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