[HOLY S**T!] Dallas police shoot Mentally Ill Man for no reason!

[PAC-BOY]

[Jam Jars]

[COVID-19]

Let's hear the other side of the story first before we make a judgement.

[PAC-BOY]

Let's hear the other side of the story first before we make a judgement.

WTF...did you watch the Video???? He stood up. Didnt make a move...and was gunned down. And click link and listen to other side. If the Video wasnt enough!

[TBear]

Surveillance video showing a Dallas police officer shooting a mentally ill man standing still about 20 feet away contradicts the assertion of an officer that the man threatened his safety by lunging at him with a knife.

Bobby Gerald Bennett remains hospitalized after being shot in the stomach Monday. The officer who shot him, Cardan Spencer, is on indefinite administrative leave pending a criminal investigation after a neighbor released surveillance video that captured the incident.

Bennett was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public servant, but Police Chief David Brown announced Friday that the charge would be dropped.

Bennett's mother, Joyce Jackson, said in an interview Friday that her 52-year-old son has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and that he was off his medication at the time of the shooting. Jackson said she was arguing with Bennett when she called the police. She was told that officers who have been trained in dealing with the mentally ill would arrive to assist her.

The officers arrived outside her southeast Dallas home around noon to find Bennett sitting on a chair in the street holding a knife. At this point, accounts of the incident differ.

Spencer wrote in a police report that Bennett refused to drop the knife and moved toward him and another officer "in a threatening manner." Spencer says that's when he fired at Bennett four times from about 20 feet away, wounding him.

The video tells a different story. Although the police report says Bennett "lunged" at the officers with a knife, in the video he stands up from the chair but then doesn't appear to move at all until the gun is fired and he crumples to the ground.

The surveillance video doesn't include audio, and Spencer wrote in his report that Bennett yelled at them, "You all are gonna need more officers than this!" But it doesn't show that the incident "escalated, which led an officer to fire his weapon upon the individual," as police spokesman Warren Mitchell said in a statement a few hours after the shooting.

Police Chief David Brown said in a statement Thursday night that Spencer has been placed on indefinite administrative leave pending a "thorough criminal investigation."

Jackson said she and her son had been arguing about whether he could take an ink drawing of a rose he had done for his late grandmother, she said. The drawing is framed on the wall of her home.

The argument soon escalated to the point where Jackson felt she needed police assistance.

"I'm devastated that I felt the need to call 911," Jackson said.

Jackson said her son struggles with mental illness and often leaves her home to sleep on the streets, but said he is an avid artist and reader and isn't violent. According to state criminal records, he was convicted of larceny, vehicle theft and forgery in the 1980s but has no recent arrests.

"I was expecting help from someone that's a lot more knowledgeable than me," she said. Mitchell, the police spokesman, declined to say Friday whether the two officers sent to Jackson's home had any specific mental health training.

Jackson did not see the shooting. She was inside her home when she heard four gunshots. She said it was a "miracle" that her neighbor's camera recorded the incident. Otherwise, "I wouldn't have had a leg to stand on," she said.

Maurice Bunch installed the surveillance camera two years ago after a trailer was stolen from his driveway.

[katjack]

Would like to hear why his mother felt why she had call the police in the first place. If she called in because he was unstable and threatened her with a knife I understand why they shot him. Too bad they couldn't talk him down.

[Russian Crushin]

I don't understand how someone, especially a cop, can just shoot a person and then lie about it.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I don't understand how someone, especially a cop, can just shoot a person and then lie about it.

I can, I grew up with those mother fukers. The thing is, this happens all the time in this country and people are in denial.

Some cops just take the power to the head and think they have a license to kill. There's video of cops killing people all the time now, for unjustified reasons.

The kid in Oakland, the kid in SF, the kid in NYC that was beaten and sodomised by the cops, the cop in New Orleans that shot and killed that woman, I mean I can go on and on.

Your last recourse shouls be shooting someone. Cops also plant stuff on criminals all the time as well, the attorney for OJ Simpson was just on talking about the reason that OJ was acquitted wasn't because he was innocent, but because it was determined that the cops planted the glove and blood.

I never knew that, he has a book about the whole thing. Cops can be as bad if not worse than the criminals.

[-Kev-]

Off topic, living in NYC and having to take the train 4 times a week, I have seen so many mentally ill people with no guardian/nobody to keep an eye on them. These people are dangerous, yes they are mentally ill, but they are a danger to the public and they should not be taking public transportation. I've seen so many incidents, live, of mentally ill people acting disorderly and if they had acted that way towards the wrong person, they would have gotten seriously hurt.

Once this dude was shouting out things like "Fat ass" and insulting her weight while sitting next to a fat woman, and then the woman stood up afraid and went to the other side of the train. The next stop some dude came in and sat next to the crazy guy, and the guy started saying "dirtbag" "I'll smash your skull!" he kept repeating this. Then he stood up and started shadowboxing wildly in the train and every one left the train and took a different wagon. He had no one there to keep an eye on him or help him or calm him down.

I mean this to protect them, they should not take public transportation, because they can end up getting hurt or hurting some one.

[-Kev-]

This guy btw, in the train, was dressed casually, had a hat, glasses, shirt jeans, and sneakers, and was shaved. He did not look homeless or like a bum, it appeared he had a home and that got me really upset. He has a home, so I imagine he had some one taking care of him, and that some one let him out alone into the streets, likely knowing full well about his condition and abut being a danger to the public.