Texas officer is charged with homicide after body cam footage emerged showing him shooting black man during a traffic stop
Daily Mail
May 2, 2019
A Texas grand jury indicted a suburban Dallas police officer Wednesday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting a black man during a traffic stop last year.
The Tarrant County grand jury indicted Arlington Officer Bau Tran eight months after he shot 24-year-old O'Shae Terry in the Dallas suburb.
Tran shot Terry on September 1 after another officer pulled the Forest Hill resident over on a registration violation.
After talking for several minutes, body camera footage shows Tran grabbing the passenger-side window of the SUV Terry was driving as it begins to roll up. The officer stepped on to the vehicle's running board as it started to move, pointed his gun into the SUV and fired multiple shots. Terry later died at a hospital.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Terry's estate, said the indictment was 'a huge relief' for his family but also less than they had hoped for. 'We are certainly happy that there will be a chance for some form of justice in this case,' Merritt told The Associated Press. 'But if anyone else had done this it would have been murder.'
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I'd like to hear both sides of the incident.
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