The San Antonio Police Division launched a narrated video of the capturing and mentioned they didn’t discover a gun on the teenager.
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio Police Division officer has been terminated after capturing an adolescent on Sunday.
This occurred simply earlier than 10:30 p.m. close to the McDonald’s at Blanco and West Avenue, which is north of downtown.
Video exhibits the officer opened the driving force’s facet door and ordered the teenager out of the automobile. The automobile backed up, and inside seconds the officer fired 5 photographs into the automobile at point-blank vary.
Because the automobile drove away, the officer fired 5 extra rounds. The teenager was hit a number of instances. There additionally was a passenger within the automobile with him.
The division mentioned the probationary police officer, James Brennand, had served on the pressure for seven months earlier than this capturing. Officers are on probation for one 12 months after graduating from the Police Academy, in keeping with an SAPD information launch.
“There’s nothing that I can say that might defend what he did, his actions that evening,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus mentioned.
“According to the Division’s Crucial Incident Video Launch Process, the Division additionally revealed the video from the officer-involved capturing in query,” the discharge says.
The narrated video by SAPD could be discovered right here. Warning: The video could also be tough to observe for some viewers.
KENS 5 beforehand reported that authorities mentioned that once they arrived on the location, an officer acknowledged the person, saying he had fled from him on Saturday evening.
SAPD’s narrated video says the driving force has been recognized as 17-year-old Eric Cantu. There was additionally a 17-year-old feminine within the passenger seat. Authorities discovered them a block away after they obtained out of the automobile.
“Officers are prohibited from capturing at transferring automobiles until it is in protection of life, and that individual case that night was not in protection of life,” McManus mentioned.
He mentioned officers did not discover any weapons on Cantu or within the automobile he was driving. He added that neither Cantu nor the automobile he was driving had something to do with the disturbance name Brennand was responding to on Sunday evening.
“We do not know who was driving that automobile the day earlier than, so I do not know what the officer was pondering. However, we do not know who was driving that automobile the day earlier than, nor did he,” McManus mentioned.
KENS 5 requested McManus whether or not the incident will immediate a better have a look at coaching new officers.
“Our coaching is sound. There’s nothing that we have to change that might repair what occurred. That was a person officer’s actions, his personal discretion,” McManus mentioned. “And once more, there’s nothing that I can say that might justify what occurred.”
Cantu was charged with evading detention in a automobile and assault on a peace officer. He was recovering in a hospital as of Wednesday.
On Monday when KENS 5 initially reported this incident, police mentioned that officers tried to detain the person, however he drove away, hitting Brennand. The officer fired his weapon on the fleeing suspect a number of instances as he drove away, hitting him a number of instances.