"He was partially blind, partially deaf, and everybody there knew he was 107 years old," Crump said. "After an hour or an hour and 15 minutes of alleged negotiation -- go look at the video, or as his children said, if they had left him alone he would have gone to sleep -- they executed Grandpa."
McCray adds "What Monroe Isadore adds to the National discussion about police brutality is this; for a Black man in America, you are never too young--and you are never too old to be executed by the police."
Crump said Isadore was shot eight times and questioned why the police rushed into the room, rather than wait as some have suggested. "They Executed Grandpa," Crump said. "Don't let this happen again."
When Police Chief Jeff Hubanks said he made the decision to order the SWAT team to go in because Isadore was armed and had fired four shots, during an interviewed by two special prosecutors assigned to the case.
"Mr. Isadore was firing rounds and our mandate is to protect the public above all else," Hubanks said in the interview. "That's what government does. That's what the police do. We protect the public and had I stood down and allowed him to, hopefully, run out of bullets or fall asleep or whatever anyone else wants to suggest, I'm not protecting the public at that point. He's still a clear and present danger."
Perhaps most disturbing to the family and the local community was the callous reply to the slaying given by the Pine Bluff Police Department. Chief Hubanks publically stated that if he had an opportunity to do it over again, "I wouldn't do one thing different--not one thing."
After their investigation, the special prosecutors determined that no criminal charges would be filed in the case.
Speaking of Isadore, Crump said he was "armed with a little six shooter. Due process works for anybody but us."
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