LAWRENCE, Kansas -- Dashcam video released Monday shows a Kansas police officer shooting and wounding a man in a case in which the rookie officer told investigators she mistakenly fired her ...LAWRENCE, Kansas -- Dashcam video released Monday shows a Kansas police officer shooting and wounding a man in a case in which the rookie officer told investigators she mistakenly fired her firearm instead of her Taser. The video provided in response to an open records request is from the patrol vehicle of an officer who pulled over 35-year-old Akira Lewis for a suspected seatbelt violation in May 2018 near downtown Lawrence, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. Lewis is heard in the video telling the white officer that he was pulled over because he is black and insists on seeing a supervisor. When he refuses to provide identification and continues arguing, backup officer Brindley Blood, who also is white, was summoned. She is seen shooting Lewis when he punches and tackles the officer who initiated the traffic stop. Blood, who resigned from the police force in January after being placed on paid leave, is charged with aggravated battery. Lewis was treated at a hospital and is charged with several misdemeanors, including battery against a law enforcement officer. The affidavit in the case against Blood said she didn't realize she had shot Lewis until she looked for the taser wires to see if they had hit their mark and realized there weren't any. She said during her interview with investigators, "I shot, shot him, I pulled my firearm instead of my Taser," the affidavit said.
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Yeah, he was a black man, and yeah, he should have complied with the cops until it was all over and done with and then gone about his business.
But instead, he chose to show his ass and act as though HE was above the law or just didn't have to comply, and that's when thisgs got dicey and he wound up getting shot. It could have all been avoided. And yes, he was acting in a stereotypical manner and therefore escalated the incident to its outcome.
But the ignorance of some of the lower educated, mis-informed, ignorant, and bigoted TRASH who write some of the comments in this thread are far more ignorant than the asshole who got shot.
Funny thing is; your posts only prove that there are far more insecure, ignorant, lower educated white trash out there than there are ignorant and stupid black people. Do the math!
Became a holy man.
Yeah, he was a black man, and yeah, he should have complied with the cops until it was all over and done with and then gone about his business.
But instead, he chose to show his ass and act as though HE was above the law or just didn't have to comply, and that's when thisgs got dicey and he wound up getting shot. It could have all been avoided. And yes, he was acting in a stereotypical manner and therefore escalated the incident to its outcome.
But the ignorance of some of the lower educated, mis-informed, ignorant, and bigoted TRASH who write some of the comments in this thread are far more ignorant than the asshole who got shot.
Funny thing is; your posts only prove that there are far more insecure, ignorant, lower educated white trash out there than there are ignorant and stupid black people. Do the math!
Dude just proved that without a gun these cops are shit that male officer was gonna get an ass whooping if the dumb cunt didn't shoot him