Body Cam Video may exonerate white OK officer in shooting black suspect

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Legal Insurrection: Body Cam Video may exonerate white OK officer in shooting black suspect

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 11:15am

 

Pastor called 911 because suspect apparently intended to murder ex-girlfriend at her wedding.

 

Thanks to a tip from commenter Gremlin1974 right here on Legal Insurrection I was directed to this relatively high-quality body camera footage of a police officer engaging a suspect with gunfire, following the suspect pointing a pistol at the officer.

 

Further details of the event were reported by local news station Fox 23 and by Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller.

 

The shooting took place on January 16, 2015 in Muskogee, OK. The ex-girlfriend of 21-year-old Terence Walker, black, was getting married, an event to which he took umbrage. His solution was to threaten to shoot her on her wedding day, including such details as noting that he had a particular bullet selected just for her.

When the bride approached her pastor in tears and shared these threats, he immediately called 911, saying of Walker: “He’s here with a gun,”

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Interesting. Thanks.

 

I can see how the body cams are going to help some, but not every time. Too limited field of view on a moving body.