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DA Releases Body-Cam Video in Police Shooting That Hurt 9-Year-Old Wichita Girl


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http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article213609549.html

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett on Thursday released body camera video that shows a police shooting that wounded a 9-year-old girl and led to a Wichita officer being fired in January.

Dexter Betts was at the girl's home in response to a 911 call on Dec. 30 when he shot twice at her dog, a 35- to 40-pound English bull terrier named Chevy. The girl was sitting behind the dog on the floor in the living room. Three other children were also in the room.

Betts' rounds missed their target. But bullet fragments that ricocheted off of the concrete floor under the carpet hit the 9-year-old's face above her eye, injuring her.

Betts defense attorney has said the dog was attacking the officer.


Former Wichita police officer Dexter Betts is charged with one count of aggravated battery in a shooting that wounded a 9-year-old girl on Dec. 30, 2017.
Courtesy photo Sedgwick County Jail


An attorney for the girl's family, Charley O'Hara, has previously told The Eagle that the girl was directly in Betts' line of sight and line of fire when he pulled the trigger. The body camera video Bennett released Thursday in response to a request from The Eagle shows the girl partially illuminated by Betts' flashlight in the moments before the shooting.

The footage shows Betts and another officer approaching the house with flashlights and going in through the front door. Two of the children are standing in front of a television in the living room. The girl is sitting on the floor in front of a couch. Betts checks the hallway and a few rooms quickly then returns to the living room.

"Ok, we got a dog inside here, too," he says on the video.

Right after, Betts shouts "Whoa! Whoa!" The camera swings over to show a dog moving on the floor between Betts and the girl. It barks. Betts fires two shots.

The girl immediately wails, "Ow! Ow! Ow, you hurt my eye! Ow! Ow!"

Betts then tells the children to get out.

When Betts is asked over his police radio what happened, he says: "Dog inside attacked us."

The video Bennett released Thursday to The Eagle is 6 minutes, 22 seconds long. A copy of it is published on www.Kansas.com.

It's rare for body camera footage from Wichita police to be released. The Eagle sued the cityafter it denied requests to release body camera video that shows an Iraqi American family being detained at a Wichita bank in September and footage connected to a hit-and-run crash that allegedly involved an off-duty Wichita police officer who had been drinking.

Bennett agreed to release the body camera video in the December shooting in response to a request from The Eagle after parts of it were shown in court during a hearing last week.

Evidence presented in open court, including video footage, becomes part of the public record even if it hasn’t been released before.
 
Remember that every black person that is attacked by these cowards doesn't always end up dead. But they still live with physical and mental pain and suffering for the rest of their lives. Keep your head on a swivel when you see these race soldier clowns on foot or in their cruisers.

Some examples:

- Leon Ford was paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair after Pittsburgh officers mistook him for someone else and pulled him over. The cops said that they noticed a gun and shot Ford in the chest. There was no gun
- Levar Jones was parked at a convenience store when South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert asked Jones for his license. Even though Jones complied in every way, Groubert shot Jones for reaching into his car to retrieve his wallet, traumatizing him for life.
- Seventeen-year-old Ulysses Wilkerson was beaten by Troy, Ala., police so badly that he had to be rushed to an out-of-town trauma center. The cops dropped him off in handcuffs so that he could be treated for three fractures to his eye socket and swelling to his brain.
- Wake County, N.C., Deputy Cameron Broadwell and North Carolina State Highway Patrol Troopers Michael Blake and Tabithia Davis broke Kyron Hinton’s eye socket and nose before releasing a police dog on him. Aside from suffering more than 20 dog bites to his face and body, Hinton still suffers memory loss.
 
Black people are going to have to learn and get through their thick skulls

STOP RUNNING FROM COPS, THEY WILL KILL YOU!!
STOP RUNNING FROM COPS, THEY WILL KILL YOU!!
STOP RUNNING FROM COPS, THEY WILL KILL YOU!!

Georgia officer charged with manslaughter in death of fleeing black motorist

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KINGSLAND, Ga. -- A Georgia police officer has been arrested and charged in the death of a black motorist shot while running away last week, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).

Officer Zechariah Presley of the Kingsland Police Department turned himself in Wednesday to the Camden County Sheriff's Office on charges of voluntary manslaughter and violation of oath of office in the death of Anthony Green, 33, in Kingsland. Presley, who is white, is on administrative leave from the department.

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Presley followed a vehicle Green was driving June 21, according to the GBI, and Green stopped the vehicle and got out and fled on foot. Presley pursued Green, eventually making physical contact, the GBI says. Green again fled, and that's when the officer fired multiple shots, killing Green.
 
I get why folks would run though, any interaction with the wrong cop could go wrong.

Well you run out of fear. Be it for your life in general, or you have a warrant, a suspended license, who knows. Fact of the matter is the last few years have shown that if you run, you will be killed. Yeah you can stand still and be killed, you can be on your stomach and be killed. At that point you just ran into the wrong cop on the wrong day. But your chances of living are higher if you do not run.
 
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