After reviewing body camera footage and video from other nearby cameras, an attorney for the Dorsey family called the death of Zadarious Dorsey, 18, an “unjustified killing.” The attorneys and the Dorsey family held a news conference Thursday in the chapel of Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home. According to a news release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, at about 1 a.m. Oct. 3, a Newnan police officer saw a white car near the intersection of Dodson Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and followed it until it stopped on Cliff Circle. The officer approached the vehicle and attempted to speak with the driver. Five men then got out of the vehicle, according to the GBI. Harry Daniels, an attorney for the Dorsey family, said the officer was in an unmarked car. The encounter was tier one, Daniels said, meaning it was a voluntary encounter that people can walk away from without issue. Daniels added that Dorsey wasn’t driving the car, so at no point was he suspected of a crime during the interaction. One of the men walked toward a nearby home while the other four ran from the scene, according to the GBI. The officer pursued one of the men, later identified as Dorsey, and ordered him to stop, according to the GBI. The officer deployed a Taser during the pursuit, but it was ineffective. According to the GBI, the officer saw Dorsey pull a gun from his waistband. The officer ordered Dorsey to stop and drop the weapon before shooting him multiple times, the GBI said. Daniels said…
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