Body camera video released by the Harris County Sherriff’s Office that shows a deputy fatally shooting a Black man, Roderick Brooks, who was accused of shoplifting detergent from a Dollar general store on July 8, notes KHOU.
Brooks’ family — who are planning a lawsuit — say they want the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the shooting:
They said the body camera video the sheriff’s office publicly released on Friday doesn’t match what they were shown privately a day earlier. The family claims the publicly released version is zoomed in and doesn’t show the sergeant punching brooks, nor the periphery during the shooting...
Officials with the sheriff’s office say the sergeant dropped his Taser and Brooks grabbed it.
The victim’s family argues there was never a threat of serious bodily injury to the sergeant.
“The Taser was never pointed in his direction,” said Sadiyah Evangelista Karriem, an attorney for the family. “The taser had already been deployed. There was no finger on the trigger for Roderick Brooks and, in fact, Roderick Brooks was scooting it under his body.”
(Source: KHOU)