Posted on 07/05/2015 7:32:03 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The Palestine Police Department has released graphic body camera footage of a fatal altercation in May between two of its officers and a man accused of stealing beer outside of an Applebee's restaurant.
Footage uploaded to YouTube shows Palestine Police Sgt. Gabriel Green and Officer Kaylynn Griffin confronting James D. Bushey, 47, in the Applebee's bathroom on May 31 before leading him outside. The two officers had been alerted that Bushey had allegedly attempted to lift a case of beer from a nearby Walmart.
"What do you need?" Bushey asks the officer Green in the videos. Green tells the man that he is a suspect in a theft case and asks him to step outside of the restaurant.
"Don't act dumb, come on and step out. You're on video, okay?" Green says when Bushey does not reply.
The officers are shown escorting Bushey — wearing a Dos Equis shirt and a baseball cap with a "Walking Dead" logo on it — outside, where the 47-year-old brandishes what appears to be a pistol and Green tries to control.
Griffin screams "Gun! Gun! Gun!" as Green releases Bushey, who dashes away and attempts to point the gun at the two officers.
Green is shown firing about nine rounds at Bushey while Griffin fires three to four.
Officers later determined that Bushey's gun, fashioned to resemble a Colt 1911 .45 caliber handgun, was a BB gun..
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
UPDATE: Grand jury clears Palestine officers who shot man outside Applebee’s
http://www.cbs19.tv/story/29210592/brother-of-man-killed-by-palestine-police-hes-not-a-bad-person
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I don’t expect cops to do any differently than I, as a civilian would do, if someone points a gun at me.
I’ll stop shooting when the other shooter stops moving.
I’ll go one step further.
Never brandish anything remotely resembling a weapon at any uniformed LEO.
That automatically negates any support from me, as a citizen, for the dead idiot.
It gets a little dicier if the cop is “undercover”, but that situation does not apply here.
So what if the gun turned out to be fake? The police have no idea that it’s fake and they have their own lives as well as everyone around them to protect in a split-second decision.
The cop-haters on FR can say what they want but when a suspect pulls something that looks like a weapon, the police response will be the same every time.
Palestine,,, I think that’s actually where Jesus was born. I know it was somewhere off in east Texas.
By the way, this pronounced PAL ES TEEN.
That goof ball drunk left them no choice.
Yep ..... DRT is always the result.
With the way most cops shoot, he had a 50/50 chance.
Right. Poor cops.
There are some people here at FR who believe the same.
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