Wannabe?
Posted on 10/26/2013 7:16:01 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
A Dallas police officer involved in the shooting of a mentally ill man, that was caught on camera, has been fired. Surveillance video shows Cardan Spencer was 20 feet away from paranoid schizophrenic Bobby Bennet when he shot him in the stomach. The police officer and his partner had maintained their story: that they were forced to shoot after the man threatened their safety by lunging at the pair with a knife. Officer Spencer has now been fired pending a criminal investigation after a neighbor released surveillance video capturing the incident that showed nothing documented in the police report actually happened.
Mr Bennett never raised his arms nor moved forward to approach the officers, yet just 20 seconds after the officers arrived he was shot in the abdomen four times. Bennett was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public servant, but Police Chief David Brown announced that the charges would be dropped. Mr Bennett's mother, Joyce Jackson, said in an interview that her 52-year-old son has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and that he was off his medication at the time of the shooting. Ms Jackson said she was arguing with Bennett when she called the police. She was told that officers who have been trained in dealing with the mentally ill would arrive to assist her. The officers arrived outside her southeast Dallas home at about noon to find Mr Bennett sitting on a chair in the street holding a knife. At this point, accounts of the incident differ.
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/johnny
Wannabe?
I remember this and watched the video. Fired? Effing fired? What about his effing partner? Fired?
Why aren’t both of these so-called LEOs in jail for murder?
If her son never got violent, why did the mother call the police over a picture?
Don’t call the police over a stupid argument.
Ever.
Cuz the victim didn’t die. You mean attempted murder - I highly agree - THEY should be in prison.
This son-of-a-bitch got his ass fired and it’s being reported that the DPD is going to refer criminal charges against him.
God, I hope they do because he deserves it. Now, this guy’s partner confirmed every bit of his story........before the private security cam footage was known about. He deserves charges as well.
I will only call the police to my home if I am completely out gunned and out numbered by home invaders, or for them to come and take a report and draw some chalk outlines around failed home invaders. Everything else will be handled as a private family matter.
It probably had to do with something the victim said to the cop. All it takes is one wrong word, and people with bipolar disorder are very good at saying the wrong words at the wrong time.
Take a simpler case.... you or I getting a traffic ticket. Say the wrong word to the police, and you will be getting much more than a ticket.
Because they are power hungry and shooting dogs is getting boring.
“fired?” “lied?”
that’s murder, matey!
Doesn't the police academy teach them to always get the guy with the camera first? < /sarc >
FINALLY. Finally they fire one of these sociopaths who have been infiltrating our police forces. No more free vacation for you, you piece of crap.
They now need to do the same for the lying piece of crap partner of the fired cop. Cops with such total lack of integrity needs to be excised from the force.
Agree. “Regrets: Bennett’s mother, Joyce Jackson, says she wishes she hadn’t called for help when her son become agitated after trying to take this picture from her home”
I’m surprised that they didn’t arrest the neighbor with the surveillance camera for obstruction of justice.
Because some officers are psychopaths that want an excuse to use their weapons for some twisted reason because they weren’t rooted out during the psych evaluation / hiring process. They know the ‘appropriate’ responses to conceal their nuttiness. I watched the video several times. The man was clearly not a real threat, the officer used deadly force when it wasn’t warranted, and then he lied about what happened. The officer needed to be fired and have assault with a deadly weapon, official oppression, and filing a false police report charges filed against him.
> I’m surprised that they didn’t arrest the neighbor with the surveillance camera for obstruction of justice.
Only in DC. The witness would have gone on extended vacation and never be heard from again.../s
18USC242. Life in prison.
I would love to know the story behind this release. Did the neighbor try to give it to the police, or did he give it directly to the media or the internet because he expected it to be buried by the police. They would likely even have gotten a quick court order prohibiting its release if they knew about it.
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