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SecularMotion

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Thu Nov 12, 2015, 12:09 PM Nov 2015

Tenn. woman busted after pointing gun at black man asking for a cigarette from 10 feet away [View all]

A 67-year-old Tennessee woman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after drawing her gun on a black man authorities said posed no threat to her, WTVF-TV reported.

“I have never been so afraid of anything in my whole life I don’t think,” Sherry McLain said of the encounter in a Walmart parking lot last weekend. “This guy is the bad guy and I’m the one in handcuffs walking away.”

According to the Murfeesboro Daily News Journal, security footage shows 52-year-old James Crutchfield walking past McLain and turning toward her, but not behaving toward her in a threatening manner.

McLain has insisted that Crutchfield approached her even after she drew her handgun and told him to stop. But the footage actually shows him backing away from her with his hands up before approaching another woman, Diane Miller, and telling her to call the police before running into the store. WTVF reported that Crutchfield never got within 10 feet of McLain during the encounter.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/tenn-woman-busted-after-pointing-gun-at-black-man-asking-for-a-cigarette-from-10-feet-away/
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