A Black Man is Paralyzed After Being Shot in His Back by Fort Worth Police(? ).. Smh…
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A video released Tuesday by a law firm shows a Fort Worth police officer shooting a man in the back, but police and the man’s lawyer disagree about whether the shooting was justified.
David Collie, the man shot by Fort Worth police, released the video of his shooting through his attorney Nate Washington after seeing an unrelated video on Facebook of a Fort Worth officer wrestling two women to the ground who called for help and arresting them.
One of the women had called police for help after a man allegedly grabbed and choked her 7-year-old son after accusing him of littering.
That officer has now been placed on restricted duty.
"Unfortunately, what we've seen from the Fort Worth police officer in that video is not an isolated incident. Many members of our community have been assaulted, handled roughly by Fort Worth police officers," Washington said. "To be clear, we believe the vast majority of police officers are good and decent people."
The newly-released video, obtained by Washington from the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office, shows an officer-involved shooting from July 27, 2016 where an off-duty Fort Worth police officer and an off-duty deputy with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported robbery at a gas station near Las Vegas Trail and South Normandale Street.
Police said one of the armed men pulled out a silver handgun and robbed someone they had met to purchase items the victim was trying to sell online, police said.
The officers drove to a nearby apartment complex in the 8700 block of North Normandale Street to look for the armed men, described as two shirtless black men, according to a Fort Worth Police Department news release sent out after the shooting.
The officers spotted a man at the apartment complex, now identified as Collie, who they believed matched the description of one the armed men.
According to police, Collie walked away from them and refused the officers' verbal commands to put his hands up. Police also said Collie pulled a silver box cutter out of his pocket and pointed it at the deputy sheriff; that's when the Fort Worth police officer shot him in the lower torso, according to the Fort Worth statement.
While agreeing that a police report said a box cutter was found 10 feet away from where Collie was shot, Washington said the police account that Collie threatened officers with a box cutter is fiction and that his client didn't have a box cutter in his hand.
Speaking specifically of the dashcam video, Washington said, "I wasn't there that night. I do know what I saw. I know I never saw this man with a weapon. I never saw this man advance toward the officers. I know I saw him get shot in his back."
Collie was hospitalized for 61 days and is now paralyzed from below the abdomen, according to Washington. He was charged with aggravated assault on a public servant, but a grand jury dismissed the case against him, Washington said possibly because Collie could not be seen in the video holding any weapon.
"There are conflicting reports in the different city police reports they have written, they have various different narratives and they're inconsistent," Washington said.
Washington said the shooting is another example of excessive force by Fort Worth police. He is considering a lawsuit against the city, but no lawsuit has yet been filed.
"We've gotten calls from attorneys across the city, who said, 'I have videos as well, I have photographs of what happened to my client,' and so we're investigating the culture and the practice of the City of Fort Worth," Washington said.
"We want justice for David. We want change, but we also want peace and calm from the community after they see this video," Washington said.
Fort Worth police said they don't plan to comment on the video released Tuesday.
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A video released Tuesday by a law firm shows a Fort Worth police officer shooting a man in the back, but police and the man’s lawyer disagree about whether the shooting was justified.
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https://apnews.com/f1bfe501d8c142e1bcd54251534e46f2Video appears to show Texas police shooting man walking away
DALLAS (AP) — A police dashcam video released five months after a Texas officer shot a black man appears to show the man walking away as the officer fired, and the man's lawyer says he was not a threat.
David Collie was shot in the back, leaving him paralyzed, lawyer Nate Washington said Wednesday. Police said at the time of the July encounter that a Fort Worth officer fired twice, striking Collie "once in the lower torso."
The officer and a Tarrant County sheriff's deputy with him were off-duty at the time and working a security detail at an apartment complex, Washington said.
Police were searching for two shirtless black men who they believed had committed a robbery near a gas station, Washington said. Authorities said in a news release they issued at the time that Collie pulled a box cutter from his pocket and pointed it at the officers.
Collie was charged with aggravated assault on a public servant but a grand jury declined to indict him.
Fort Worth police on Wednesday defended the actions of the officers, who they have not named. Sgt. Marc Povero said in a statement that Collie failed to comply with commands to stop and that he appeared to point a silver object at the deputy, consistent with earlier reports by the robbery victim that a suspect flashed a silver handgun. Washington said Collie was not involved in the robbery. A box cutter found nearby didn't belong to Collie, Washington said.
The shooting occurred late at night and darkness obscures Collie's actions, but the video seems to show him pointing in another direction as he walks away and it is not clear if there is anything in his hand.
Povero said a department review of the incident had been completed but declined to discuss the outcome. The officer who shot Washington has since returned to duty, he said. Povero declined to comment on the race of the officer.
Samantha Jordan, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County District Attorney's office, said all police-involved shootings are submitted directly and without recommendation to the grand jury, where Collie's case is currently pending.
"We've reviewed the evidence," Jordan said. "Since it is pending, we can't comment."
The 33-year-old Collie was walking from work to a friend's apartment when the officers approached him in their patrol vehicle, Washington said. The video appears to show the Fort Worth officer firing his weapon about 10 seconds after exiting the vehicle and as Collie walked away.
The video was obtained about three weeks ago from the Tarrant County district attorney's office through an open-records request, Washington said. The attorney said he released the video Tuesday at a news conference at Collie's insistence because Collie was tired of comments made to his mother by people assuming he must have done something wrong.
