Texas campus cop empties gun on unarmed student

[phantom power]

A campus police officer in San Antonio, Texas is under investigation after shooting and killing an unarmed student at an off-campus traffic stop.

At a press conference on Friday, Lt. Cindy Pruitt of the Alamo Heights Police Department said that an altercation occurred when University of the Incarnate Word Cpl. Chris Carter pulled over 23-year-old Robert Cameron Redus just a few blocks off campus at around 2 a.m Friday morning.

A witness who did not wish to be identified recalled to KSAT that the officer never warned Redus before shooting him.

“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know? I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” the witness said. “He emptied the gun on him…. Boom, boom, boom. Six shots — five or six.”

However, 22-year-old Mohammad Haidarasl — a resident of Treehouse Apartments in Alamo Heights — did hear Redus speak to the officer.

“I heard (a man) say, ‘Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?’ like sarcastic almost,” Haidarasl explained to the San Antonio Express-News.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/08/texas-campus-cop-empties-gun-on-unarmed-student-oh-youre-gonna-shoot-me/

[RiffRandell]

1. Saw this on the news this morning.

[jsr]

2. School cop wanted to enforce traffic laws two miles outside campus

I hope the family sues for everything they've got.

[Mosby]

6. I agree but lawsuits dont seem to be helping

What needs to happen is cops like this one get charged with murder and let a jury decide guilt.

The reality is a couple million dollar verdict in a civil suit is not enough of an incentive to change the cops behavior. The prospect of 25 to life in prison is Imo.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Juries must stop giving police the benefit of the doubt.

[Glassunion]

11. Juries rarely see these types of cases.

They need to make it out of an internal investigation first.

[intheflow]

12. This guy wasn't a cop, and even if he was,

he was well outside his jurisdiction. If this ever went to jury, this bozo would go down.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

- An obvious danger to the community:

[JEB]

4. I guess we've expanded the War on Terror to sarcasism.

What a fucking waste. I hope the family sues the "University of the Incarnate Word" out of existence.

[Gothmog]

5. I saw this story on the local news this weekend

There needs to be a full investigation into this incident

[damnedifIknow]

8. Can something be done yet?

Christ.

[rrneck]

9. Never, never, never

dare somebody to shoot you. They will.

[politicaljunkie41910]

10. I thought the University of the "Incarnate" Word was a joke aimed at Texas schools

I didn't realize until I clicked on the link that is the actual name of the school.

[WillyT]

13. K & R !!!