Controversy Surrounds Fatal Shooting of Suspected Shoplifter by Walgreens Security Guard in San Francisco

A former prosecutor, Tony Brass, has criticized San Francisco's District Attorney Brooke Jenkins' decision not to charge a Walgreens security guard, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, for fatally shooting a shoplifter, Banko Brown, on April 27. Brass argues that the security guard used unnecessary aggression and that the case was not a clear instance of self-defense. He believes that Anthony should have let Brown go and that the gun was not necessary. Jenkins' decision has been controversial, and Brass thinks that self-defense should be left for a jury to decide.