A police officer was fired by the San Antonio Police Department after bodycam evidence showed him killing a youngster who was eating a cheeseburger in a Texas McDonald’s parking lot.
Erik Cantu, a 17-year-old who was shot multiple times, was identified by the police. He is still in the hospital.
According to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus, the agency fired Officer James Brennand on Wednesday as a result of his conduct, which went against department methods, training, and policies.
Police claim that on October 2, Officer Brennand was responding to a disturbance report when he observed a car he believed had sped away from him the previous evening during an attempted stop.
According to the police, the officer said that the automobile door struck him as the teen began to reverse the vehicle.
The cop can be seen on bodycam video firing ten shots at the moving car before pursuing it on foot.
According to the police, the car’s passenger was unharmed during the event.
Through his lawyer, Cantu’s family announced in a statement on Sunday that the boy is struggling for his life and is currently on life support.
“We appreciate your kind words about Erik’s progress toward recovery. Cantu’s lawyer, Brian Powers, said: “We will advise you that he’s still in critical condition and truly battling for his life every minute of the day as his body has undergone a significant amount of trauma. “He is still being kept alive. We are in need of any blessing we can get right now.
Beyond this update, we politely request your privacy as this is a sensitive time in our lives and we are just concerned with getting him home.
The San Antonio Police Officer’s Association declined to comment after Brennand was let go from the force, but in a later statement to ABC News, the union’s president, Danny Diaz, said that the group will not represent Brennand because, at the time of the shooting, he had not yet served out his one-year probationary period for new officers.
Before becoming eligible for benefits offered by the union, new police recruits must successfully complete a one-year probationary period, Diaz said. We agree with the San Antonio Police Department’s decision to fire Officer James Brennand, but we won’t say anything more until a th
