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Former SAPD officer James Brennand factors a weapon at a maroon BMW pushed by Erik Cantu on Oct. 22, 2022.
The San Antonio teenager shot a number of instances by a San Antonio police officer in Oct. 22, 2022, in a McDonald’s car parking zone has filed federal civil rights lawsuit in opposition to each the town and the previous officer concerned within the incident.
Excessive-profile civil rights legal professional Ben Crump filed the go well with Friday on behalf of Erik Cantu and Cantu’s girlfriend, Emily Proulx, in U.S. District Court docket in San Antonio. The petition alleges San Antonio Police Chief William McManus “adopted formal and casual insurance policies, practices, procedures, and tradition” that led to officer James Brennand, who’s since been faraway from the pressure, capturing Cantu.
The go well with additionally alleges McManus did not appropriately self-discipline SAPD officers and that he repeatedly reinstated officers terminated for misconduct, which created an “casual coverage of tolerance and help for officers who unconstitutionally use extreme pressure.”
Amongst different examples, the go well with additionally recounts the SAPD shootings of Antronie Scott in 2016, 13-year-old AJ Hernandez in 2022 and Melissa Perez in 2023, arguing they present the division’s tradition of extreme use of pressure.
The civil grievance seeks an unspecified sum for compensation for previous and future medical bills, previous and future ache and struggling, bodily impairment, bodily disfigurement, previous and future psychological anguish in addition to court docket prices and additional aid by which the plaintiffs are “justly entitled.”
Cantu and Proulx have been sitting in a maroon BMW in a San Antonio McDonald’s car parking zone on Oct. 22, 20222, when Brennand, who did not determine himself as an officer, in line with the go well with, opened the motive force’s facet door and demanded that Cantu exit the automobile.
When Cantu sped off, Brennand fired on the automobile a number of instances, injuring Cantu.
Brennand is going through two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant and one depend of lethal conduct in relation to the capturing.
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