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The 2 SAPD officers served started serving their suspensions in November.
Police have arrested a San Antonio man accused in a now-viral social media video of hitting a girl twice throughout an encounter final yr in a public park.
On Monday, San Antonio police charged Noah Ochoa, 24, with misdemeanor assault — bodily damage. He is since been launched on $3,500 bail.
Ochoa is accused of putting a girl in Olmos Basin Park in Might 2023 after she instructed him he was mistreating his canine. Ochoa allegedly hit the girl twice at the back of the top along with his open hand earlier than getting in his automobile and driving at her as if he deliberate to run her over, in line with an SAPD police report.
The case grabbed nationwide consideration after self-identified web sleuth @TizzyEnt, a Florida resident whose actual title is Michael McWhorter, shared purported video of the incident on TiokTok and X, the web platform previously generally known as Twitter.
McWhorter publicly accused SAPD officers of a coverup as a result of it took 9 months for a detective handy the case over to the Bexar County District Lawyer’s workplace. McWhorter maintained in a video clip that Ochoa is expounded to a 20-year SAPD veteran.
The Present has been unable to confirm that allegation.
UPDATE: Has the SAPD been acrively defending this suspect? You be the decide. pic.twitter.com/bvg5rJT0VW
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) January 22, 2024
McWhorter’s accusations led San Antonio Police Chief Invoice McManus to publicly rebuke the claims final week in a tweet.
Even so, Bexar County District Lawyer Joe Gonzales instructed News4SA final week that on-line posts will be helpful in monitoring down suspects.
“One of many advantages of social media is it could actually turn out to be a really highly effective device on this case,” Gonzalez instructed the station.
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