Texas officer charged with homicide for shooting black man
Source: Associated Press
Texas officer charged with homicide for shooting black man
Updated 10:44 pm CDT, Wednesday, May 1, 2019
FILE - This file screenshot taken from Sept. 1, 2018, police body camera video provided by the Arlington, Texas, Police Department, shows an officer, foreground, talking to O'Shae Terry after stopping him for a vehicle registration violation, in Arlington, as a second officer, Bau Tran, background left, looks in from the passenger side window. Tran has been charged with criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting Terry during the traffic stop. (Arlington Police Department via AP, File)
DALLAS (AP) A Texas grand jury indicted a suburban Dallas police officer Wednesday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting a black man during a traffic stop last year.
The Tarrant County grand jury indicted Arlington Officer Bau Tran eight months after he shot 24-year-old O'Shae Terry in the Dallas suburb.
The indictment marks a rare criminal prosecution of a police officer in the historically conservative North Texas county. It could draw greater attention to a case that was largely overshadowed by another in the same month in which a white Dallas police officer fatally shot a black man in his own apartment.
Tran shot Terry on Sept. 1 after another officer pulled the Forest Hill resident over on a registration violation. After talking for several minutes, body camera footage shows Tran grabbing the passenger-side window of the SUV Terry was driving as it begins to roll up. The officer stepped on to the vehicle's running board as it started to move, pointed his gun into the SUV and fired multiple shots. Terry later died at a hospital.
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dmrtndl1
(21 posts)The cop is not a white male and is of Asian ethnicity, thus the cop is able to be tried. Not saying he ain't guilty but he is of the wrong ethnicity in Texas to get a mulligan.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)IronLionZion
(45,438 posts)where the Somali ethnicity cop murdered an Australian white woman and will be the only one to get some punishment.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Killed over an expired car registration...
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)I do not care who the cop is when they give him a badge and gun. What is wrong is this TURD shot an unarmed man. Cops are trained and when you do WRONG the cop should be in prison or hanged for MURDER. THIS COP KILLED A PERSON FOR NOTHING. Cops who kill should be SHOT......