A cop named James Brennand in San Antonio has been sacked by the department after his horrifyingly shocking video of firing multiple shots at a teen eating burger inside the car, surfaced.
The teen has been identified as 17 -year-old Eric Cantu. The video showed Eric having his burger inside his car parked near Mcdonald’s, meanwhile, a cop approaches his car and abruptly tries to open the door asking him to get down, and fired multiple times on the former’s car after he denied doing so.
In response, Eric shut the door and fled from the spot. The incident has been recorded from the police’s body cam which has now surfaced leading to widespread outrage.
As per the local media reports, the teen has initially been charged with evading detention in a vehicle and assault on a police officer. However, owing to the video which went viral charges against Eric were dropped with the cop being arrested.
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Earlier this week, a San Antonio cop abruptly confronted a teen eating in a McDonalds parking lot & demanded the teen exit his vehicle.
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) October 7, 2022
When the teen asked why, the cop immediately assaulted & then shot him MULTIPLE TIMES. Cop tried to (falsely) claim the teen had struck him 1st pic.twitter.com/ATNKj4fVgi
His car was found a block away after he suffered multiple bullet shots in the incident and recovers now at a hospital. Eric was accompanied by a 17-year-old girl in the passenger seat but fortunately went unhurt.
Media took the take of San Antonio’s police chief William McManus on the matter to which he said, "There's nothing that I can say that could defend what he did, his actions that night."
He went on to say, “Officers are prohibited from shooting at moving vehicles unless it's in defense of life, and that particular case that evening was not in defense of life."
Mr. McManus said officers didn't find any guns on the teen or in the car he was driving, the American media reported. He added that neither the teen nor the car he was driving had anything to do with the disturbance call officer Brennand was responding to on Sunday night.