A former Arkansas deputy has been convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to a year in jail for fatally shooting an unarmed white teenager whose death last year drew the attention of national civil rights leaders.
Jurors acquitted Michael Davis of the more serious offence of manslaughter while finding him guilty of the misdemeanour charge in the death of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain during a June 23 traffic stop outside Cabot, a city of about 26,000 people roughly 48 kilometres northeast of Little Rock.
The maximum jail term that Davis, a former sergeant with the Lonoke County sheriff’s office, faced was one year.
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