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..
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Suicide-by-cop.
Most definitely !
Idiot headline writer. If it was a bb gun, it's not a fake gun.
Yep.
And while I’ll agree that a BB gun shouldn’t be considered a full fledged gun, it can still shoot an eye out. No officer should have to submit to that.
And from any distance at all, it would be hard to tell what was really in the guy’s hand.
This was either suicide by cop or another Darwin Award winner.
He is faking it...
One less Palestinian. Oh, the outrage.
Pointing a fake gun at two men armed with real guns with real bullets is a non-repeating act.
crazy.. what’s a case of beer gonna get ya?
It can cause a nasty flesh wound that could get infected, too. (from National Lampoon’s Vacation)
Well that’s stupid.
Obvious. He about unloaded the entire mag on him.
Darwin Award winner.
According to these liberals, socialists and communists, the police officers should have known that the “GUN” was a fake one. REALLY??? The stupidity of these people amazes me every day.
Zactly. End of story.
Firing nine rounds? That sounds racist. Where is rev. al sharpton and rev. jesse?
but shouldn't he have been frisked from moment one?
My kids had a 1911 .45 bb pistol when they were younger. From 5 feet away it looks real enough to get you killed.
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