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Elroy Clarke
Gender : Male
Age :
Race : Black
Date : 10/23/2024
Location : Unknown
City : Charlotte
County : Charlotte
State : Florida
Agency : Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during arrest
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Elroy Clarke was engaged in a dispute with a man who had been staying at his home for three months. There have been problems and he wanted the man to leave. An altercation took place and Charlotte County deputies arrived. Elroy Clarke had allegedly had an FTA warrant for a trespassing charge and police arrived at a fight he had with an unwanted person at his home to wanting to arrest him for failure to appear in court for the trespassing charge. Police attacked him with several rounds of taser, pepper spray, baton and physical assault by three deputies. Police finally shot and killed the unarmed man in his driveway. Bodycam linked below. Clarke was a sovereign citizen which is an ideology that does not recognize authority of the state. Police commonly target sovereign citizens.
