Police body camera footage showed the moments when a San Antonio officer opened fire on a 17-year-old boy sitting in a vehicle in a McDonald’s parking lot. Officials say the officer involved has been fired and the teen is hospitalized after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.
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wtf
“The teen’s defense attorney, Brian Powers, told CNN that the Bexar County district attorney’s office notified him Friday that prosecutors would not be moving forward with charges against his client. A spokesperson for the DA’s office referred CNN to the county’s online court record system, which indicates that both charges have been dismissed and the case closed…” 8 Oct 2022 CNN.
That’s was a dirtbag move by the cop he should be fired and get charged
James Brennand is the name of the cop that shot the kid
Headline quite misleading. Typical race bating from this channel and anti cop
Kid eating a hamburger must really be a threatening situation. Surprised this cop did not have heart attack of fright.
When you are eating a hamburger keep an eye out for scared little cops. Just doing their job.
I bet if police is required to police where they live things will go very differently. Tell me what police officer will discharge a weapon on their own kids or their neighbors kids.
He was shot for eating a hamburger??? Police office needs to go to jail for attempted double homicide…Chief incharge should be fired and charged with accessory to cover up a crime…
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and that’s why they’re called pigs.
Bye bye badge hello jail
The officer claims that this car fled earlier but has no knowledge of if the driver of this car was the driver at that time. That’s probable cause only to approach the vehicle, properly identify yourself and begin an interaction. At no point did the officer have any right to open that car door and demand the driver get out. He had no legal authority to do that and therefore was not acting in the lawful performance of his duties.
That’s an important part because it means the second he opened the door he became an aggressor. Uniform or not the kid had every right to flee since this guy is behaving like a serious threat and not a real cop. When he reached in and attempted to grab the kid and drag him out he then became an assailant. A significant escalation of the reasonable threat the seventeen year old is experiencing.
It doesn’t matter that this was actually a cop and in uniform. There’s no reason for the kid to have believed that based on the clearly illegal and aggressive actions of his assailant. He was being attacked he tried to flee, not a crime. In some states when the attacker, who in this moment is not legally acting as a cop just an aggressive stranger wearing a uniform, tried to physically pull the kid from the car that kid would have had the right to deliberately use the deadly force of the car against the threat.
All those actions added up mean that the cop absolutely does not get to use deadly force against the kid any more than any other random citizen, as the aggressor, would in this situation. He forfeited all of the special privilege and considerations that typically come with being a police officer the moment his hand touched the door handle. Not only will the lawsuit payout be enormous, I expect this cop will face charges.
Glad he was fired, dude needs more training
I am surprised they never charged the youth with attacking the officer with a hamburger!
US POLICE ARE BLOODTHIRSTY. AND IT IS ENDLESS.
Nothing this kid did warranted the cop to fire his gun once, let alone the 10 times I counted his gun going off. 10 shots… and with the quickness… such trash. I hope the kid is heals well and justice is served to the man who attempted to murder him.
IT IS FIRST DEGREE ATTEMT TO MURDER AND THE POLICE MUST FACE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
The Police are just another gang.
First off you don’t just open someone’s car door what the fcuk did you think he was gonna do. He had to act just as fast as the officer im glad he got to the hospital. That’s the first place I would have gone. The kid could of thought you were trying to rob him. Is it legal to have a bullet proof vehicle. I think we all need one in this day in age. I hope the cop gets intentional homicide and life in prison.
Death Penalty should be activated for that officer.
White lives matter too it seems
Don’t resist arrest and you won’t get shot. Someday these people will learn that lesson, but it seems most need to learn the hard way. lol
what?
If anyone defends the behavior of this cop as justified then you are just as guilty as this officer.
I can say it is not safe anymore in the USA. A lot of crime. and people still want to defund the police. haha. no more police officer want to work. >> a lot of crimes more. Move to Canada.
I was thinking the same thing. He reported shots fired like he was in danger of being shot!
Alles richtig gemacht! Wer flüchtet hat eine waffe! Lasst den jungen Mann im Dienst! Ihm gehört ein Orden!
Er wollte den Polizisten mit der Tür verletzen
Wow used to feel safe on the river walk scary
The video turned away while the boy was reaching for something. I think the officer panicked and assumed it was a gun the child was reaching for.
SOLO LOS ASESINOS NO TIENEN NI CENSURA NI GENOCIDIO.
Wow. Absolutely ridiculous!!!
This is what Republicans want to defend when they say ‘back the blue’.
I’m on the side of the cop in this one.
why?
@Bobby he just wants to troll, a bit obvious.
have fun spending the rest of ur life in prison
We would all “avoid his detention”.I can’t believe anyone lived.Its shocking.
1:15 Detained? Assault on a “supposed peace officer”? Is there more to this video? Because I didn’t hear the cop tell the guy that he’s being detained. And how is driving away in fear of your life the same as causing an assault on someone?🤷
1:05 I never seen a fast turn over on a black kid & why everyone knew everyone was gone say that? It’s sad eachotha way..I can’t tell did he live –
USA is a banana republic where there is no place better than other place. All cities and towns are equal when it comes to crime , corruption , run down areas and lack of cleanliness ! No European man with dignity and pride would want to live there. But hey !!! It s the dreamland of Latinos, Indians and the Chinese pipo. Gosh , what an honour for them to be able to live between wyt pipo. But unfortunatly , Americans are becoming less wyt faster than predicted. I guess in the year 2100, latinos would be saying : I wish i could live in Poland or Czeck republic, what a beautiful country ! The people are very kind and smart. Its the land of my dreams.
If the guy had a gun he’d be ok, isn’t that the Texas way of thinking? Sorry no sympathy here for anyone in Texas who voted for the governor, enjoy what you voted for and deal with the consequences
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG FOR YEARS!!!😲
IT’S GOTTEN TO THE POINT 👉 YOU CAN’T ORDER A LATE NIGHT BURGER 🍔 !!!
FRIGHTEN, SCARED, POWER HUNGRY COPS, FIRE THEIR WEAPONS ON UNARMED CIVILIANS !!!
NO MATTER WHAT RACE, COLOR, OR CREED !!!!
THEN I WOULD GET THESE STUPID COMMENTS 😳 SAYING “THE SUSPECT SHOULD OF COMPLIED !!!”👀
HOW CAN A CIVILIAN COMPLY WHEN COPS DON’T PROBABLY PRESENT THEMSELVES THAT THEY’RE NOT A THREAT TO CIVILIANS !!!
SWINGING OPENING A DOOR AND SAYING GET OUT IS NOT PROPERLY IDENTIFYING YOURSELF !!!
HOW AT LATE NIGHT A CIVILIAN SUPPOSED TO RESPOND? 🤔
IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANYONE PORTRAYING THEMSELVES TO BE COPS !!!!
THAT TEEN WAS SCARED FOR HIS LIFE 😨
THAT COP JUST CONFIRMED HIS FEAR 😨
I can’t tell you how unbelievable this is to me! I just cannot believe that the officer would just go and open the door never once saying “POLICE” , not waiting for back-up to arrive for what is supposedly a FELONY STOP – if in the officer’s mind the suspect had previously FLED
Poor kid was eating a chicken sandwich – is that illegal? they were both kids without guns. Real sad to see this coming from a trained officer, real SAD!!
This is what defunding and demonizing the police look like. Incompetent cops interacting with brainwashed citizens = more unfortunate events just like this.
They charged the kid. SMFH.
It’s is a shame that this officer got fired from the squad… instead of having been fired on by a squad. Also now former officer James Brennand is a lot harder to find you know?
Why ? The person was eating …he was holding a sandwich…
May as well give the dibble Uzi’s so he can put even more lead out
Wow this cop just tried to murder a kid…
Some things are blatantly obvious in this video. The cop did not pull him over or have his lights on. He had no clue who was driving the vehicle at the time. Because he did not pull him over or have his lights on, and did not attempt to block him in as a show of detainment, he had zero right whatsoever to open that car door. His only option doing it the way he did it was to knock on the window and hope that someone responded. No one in that vehicle was obligated to respond or speak to the officer in any way shape form or fashion. The officer burglarized the vehicle the second he opened the door. The officer was in commencement of a crime and the person’s inside the vehicle had full right to flee. This officer got butt hurt because somebody ran from him previously and assumed that it was the same person. Everything about this everything about what the cop did is illegal.
This officers actions are “thuggish “, nothing more to say!!
The cop should be arrested for shooting instead of using a taser gun first instead of shooting the guy in the car because I saw what happened that night and it’s BS of what he did to that teenagers #abuseofpower
this is why they arent given detective work. pure trash cop.
and the kid was charged?! DROP THE CHARGES!
what in the Holy praise muffins are these keystone Cops doing ,my Gosh when does this Stop ✋️
Tell me ,why is this dummy a Cop to begin with whos hiring these psychopaths Who??
Lol trust the police… yeah right.
That was an attempted murder if I’ve ever seen one. Sheeeit it’s almost like a armed robbery gone wrong but with a badge. Life in prison, eye for an eye. It’s only fair. Pig!
Don’t call Police for nothing
we need more peace officers
Charged with evading? Officer never identified himself! He’s not evading the law he’s evading for his life
Nonsense.
Good ol’ SAPD
Because that fool was given a badge he feels he can open fire on people any how, im glad the animal has been fired from the force
Bodycam Shows San Antonio Officer Open Fire On Teen Sitting In McDonald’s Parking Lot in Stolen BMW.
Hitting the cop with the door open gave justification, but the second round of shots was not.
well i think the second round is okay because the suspect was not black so it is okay. remember BLACK lives matter. remember that
Disarm the police! What country is this in? Cops need to be disarmed in that country. They clearly should not be given weapons. This cop would need training before given a whistle loud enough to damage someones hearing. Disarm the police.
San Antonio police department need to put some handlebars on this situation……..Now🤬
[Humor Alert]
Breaking news: the former officer is a cousin of The Vegan Teacher and is one of the latest additions to her Hit Squad, which she created to track down and exterminate anyone caught eating meat from McDonald’s. The Squad is initially focusing on McD parking lots.
I eat popcorn knowing that there is a nationwide police shortage. More crimes rise and more people dumbfounded as to what to do. This stuff is like a kids show where it searches for the moral of the story, but it keeps replaying itself. It now becomes a comedy and I can’t stop getting entertained. :3
This is what happens when we let morons and idiots run the workplace. We all know we need to step up standards all across usa.
So, did the cop park his car and just walk up to the car already parked in the parking lot, or did he pull him over? I’m assuming since the kid was eating his meal, the cop just walked up and open the car door, probably freaking the kid out.
You got it, kid was freaked and it would scare me too
So the gangster with tattoos all over his forearms is a cop?
I do this a lot like eating in a parking lot, now I gotta watch my back everytime someone approaches my vehicle 😢
To play devils advocate, if you watch it again the kid gets a good look at the officer and then reversed with the door open which could have easily knocked the cop down and drug him under the car. Now, that didn’t happen but when I was 17 I would have expected to be shot at if I pulled the same stunt, but maybe not while driving AWAY. I think most of his shots are criminal, but maybe not all
wtf kinda cop is that tho
GET THESE TRIGGER HAPPY COPS OUT OF ANY JOB OF AUTHORITY!! FIRE NO PAYYYYYYYY!!! DO NOT SEND THEM TO THE PRISONS TO DO WRONG THERE TOO!! FIRE FIR LIFE!!!
I think the officer has different tactics and training. He rules.
He thought he was getting car jacked any of us would do the same. Lock this fake cop up for life! If anyone else did this they’d be locked up right now. Also stop handcuffing people when they’re dying!
This was a probationary officer (newbie) with only 7 months on the job. He was IMMEDIATELY sh!t-canned by the department, the charges against the kid were rejected by the local DA, and the poor kid is likely to get a big fat paycheck from the city if he (hopefully) survives. The police officer, now fired, is likely going to face serious charges… and rightly so.
I am very pro-law enforcement, but part of that is calling out bad officers and bad shootings when they occur. The media is quick to paint every police officer as a monster, even when the shooting is clearly justified, but in this instance, we actually DO have someone who has NO BUSINESS enforcing the law making a TERRIBLE decision to use deadly force when it is in no way justified. I hope the kid makes it, and I hope this officer faces serious charges.
So let me get this straight, the man unannounced opens the door of this teenager’s car demands him to get out of the car and when the teenager freaks out and tried to escape the situation he unloaded his clip onto the person and then chased him.
How is this any different from any other car Jacker? The fact that this one has a uniform and a badge? No, this officer acted unlawfully and tried to murder this young man because he couldn’t control the situation the right way.
Police are the biggest threat to society. We need to re-organize police in this country. Mass incarceration is profitable enough to buy politicians so I’m sure things will get a lot worse.
Let’s get the Facts first !!!! We don’t know what went on in the Car !!!
This police officer deserves 20Y in jail! But, it’s Texas. Greg Abbott will probably give the officer a medal!
American police is hilarious 😆
The person to be blame here is not the officer or the teen is actually the recruiter and the police department .
To serve Who and to protect What? Clearly, some people have no business serving in the job as police officers! Had the victim been black, they would have found any and every reason to justify his brutality. Get rid of these con men in the police department!!!
If this dumb kid and cop didn’t do what they both did it wouldn’t have ended this way knock on the window if they run chase kid had no intention of stopping as soon as he saw the police he threw it in reverse they both (police officer fired for doing job wrong)(kid for trying to run from the police) kinda got what was supposed to happen to them at that time. Do your job right and don’t run from police moral of story.
Cops are not sending their best, be careful out there folks
it’s funny how nobody blaming the victim in THIS situation. I wonder what’s different? hmmmm
execute attempt
This is so sad! Why shoot at him? Wrong on so many levels
Deserved it. This is what happens if you try to evade the cops.
Now he can go to therapy and she can tell him it’s his fault and that he has a help seeking deficit. Word to the wise, NEVER go to a therapist after something that severe has happened, unless you’re the cop. So called trauma therapists only want to treat first responders not their prey.
that driver reacted correctly rando opens the car door and start blasting i would did the dash too tf
THAT OFFICER NEEDS TO GET THE DEATH PENALTY !!!!!!!!!!!!
Cops. Another word for cowardly bullies who want to push people around.
murder doesn’t align with ur tactics?
shocking.
….but it happens anyway