Surveillance camera shows Dallas PD lied about shooting of mentally ill man

[NightShade]

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Uh-oh: surveillance camera shows Dallas PD lied about shooting of mentally ill man



Today, Cardan Spencer and Christopher Watson are officers with the Dallas Police Department. If there is any justice at all in Texas courts, they will soon be prison inmates:

Family and friends of a mentally ill Rylie man want answers after a Dallas police officer shot him for no apparent reason Monday in broad daylight outside his home.

A police report says that Officer Cardan Spencer fired on Bobby Gerald Bennett, 52, after Bennett walked toward him and his partner with a “knife raised in an aggressive manner.”

But a neighbor’s video surveillance camera recording shows something different: It shows Bennett, who was seated in a chair, initially rolling back from officers as they advance on him. Bennett then stands up but does not move. His hands remain at his side and he is standing still when Spencer shoots him, firing his service weapon four times.

Bennett remained in the intensive care unit of a Dallas hospital Thursday after being shot in the abdomen.

Spencer and Watson were unaware of the surveillance camera, and claimed that Bennett was advancing upon them with a knife, which the video clearly shows not to be true.

The gunned a man down, and tried to lie about it. There is no place in law enforcement for men such as these.

I don't think the guy was 100% innocent, sounds like he was going crazy inside and that is why the police were called but the video clearly shows that he made no threatening movement towards the officers as they stated. He was in violation of his parole and would have went to jail anyway but the shooting didn't seem justified from what I saw.

 

[elwoodtrix]

seated in a chair in the middle of the street... and the video doesn't show anything clearly

 

[dennishoddy]

Saw this on the news this morning. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

 

[Nifrost]

[QUOTE\] but the shooting didn't seem justified from what I saw.[/QUOTE]

Agree with Nightshade. The video shows no apparent threat to the officers; however, I'd like to see the view from the dash-cam video as well......this angers AND saddens me.

 

[Lurkerinthewoods]

Shocking...

 

[Souperphly]

If he had a knife in his hand then I would say the way he came out of that chair would be an aggressive and threatening manner.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

Obviously I wasn't there, but I didn't see anything that a Taser couldn't take care of.

 

[beast1989]

I don't think the guy was 100% innocent, sounds like he was going crazy inside and that is why the police were called but the video clearly shows that he made no threatening movement towards the officers as they stated. He was in violation of his parole and would have went to jail anyway but the shooting didn't seem justified from what I saw.

Im not quite sure what you mean by that but the police are 100% in the wrong. As a cop and as weapons carrier the ability to discern and assess situations is critical and this was a grave lapse in judgement. In my book this should be attempted murder, absolutely unlawful.

 

[caojyn]

Ibtl...

 

[n8thegr8]

Wasn't in Oklahoma, who cares