'Don't run from the state police, you'll get fucked up': Bodycam video shows cops making callous comments about boy, 15, as he lay dying on the street after cops tased him on a moving ATV
by Keith Griffith
Daily Mail
April 13, 2018
Newly released bodycam video has revealed the harsh remarks Detroit officers made in response to a 15-year-old boy who died when a state trooper tasered him on a moving ATV.
Damon Grimes, 15, was fleeing from Michigan State Police after popping a 'wheelie' on a Detroit street in August when his ATV hit a parked truck and flipped over, killing him.
Trooper Mark Besser is charged with second-degree murder after firing his Taser at Grimes through the window of his vehicle during the pursuit.
Bodycam video from the Detroit officers who responded from the scene was released on Friday by the Detroit Free Press, which obtained hours of footage through a public records request.
The footage, which does not include dashcam video from the pursuit vehicle that Bessner was riding in, shows local cops arriving on the scene within 30 seconds.
'He's got a pulse, and he's breathing. He's unconscious,' Bessner said into his police radio as he hunches over Grimes on the pavement.
'He slowed down. We tased him, and he crashed out,' Bessner added over the radio later. State Police policy prohibits firing a Taser from a moving vehicle.
'His pulse is weakening, what's our ETA on EMS,' says one officer over the radio as Detroit Police officer Kimberly Buckner pulled up in her patrol car.
'His pulse is weakening because he was on that fuckin' thing, and you chased his ass,' Buckner muttered to herself as she stepped out of her vehicle, her body camera recording.
'Don't run from the State Police, you'll get fucked up,' another unidentified officer on the scene comments.
An ambulance arrives about seven minutes after the crash, one minute faster than the city average for life-threatening incidents.
Officer Emily Stephenson's body cam shows her approaching fellow Detroit Police officer Aubrey Wade to ask if they should give the ambulance an escort to the hospital.
'Hell no. For him?' Wade responded, noting the ambulance has lights and sirens, and escorts are reserved for police. 'If an officer was shot, we'll do that.'
As the ambulance departed, Buckner approached Wade and commented that Grimes' mother needed to be at the hospital.
'That's a grown-ass man,' he said of Grimes, a 6-foot-1, 234-pound teenager.
'No, he's 15,' she replied. 'He's 15 years old.'
'He's a bad-ass 15,' Wade said, later adding: 'No sympathy at all for bullshit. Motherfucker wanna be grown, ya act grown, you gotta fuckin' deal with it.
Wade, a 22-year veteran, was pulled from his position of neighborhood resource officer after the Free Press brought the remarks to light. He has been reassigned to a non-patrol duty.
Grimes was transported to St. Johns Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. An autopsy concluded Grimes died of blunt force head trauma.
He was about to begin ninth grade at Michigan Collegiate in Warren. Grimes' family has filed a wrongful death suit.
Bessner, a 44-year-old husband and father with a law degree, remains behind bars pending bail of $1million cash.
His criminal trial is scheduled to start July 9 in Wayne County Circuit Court.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Will cops ever learn to keep their mouths shut and act beyonf reproach when on camera? No display of tombstone humor and callousness for anyone to see. When it comes to0 losing respect, cops are their own worst enemies.
2 comments:
Open your ears and close your mouth.
People have to LEARN. The chances of you being recorded while in public are very high if there is anything even remotely interesting going on. You can no longer say casual crap with impunity. We don't pay cops to be stupid and insensitive. That was stupid and insensitive.
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