OF THE WORKWEEK AND INTO THAT WEEKEND OUTLOOK WE’VE GOT THAT COMING UP IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES.
FIRST BACK TO YOU.
>>LAUREN VERNO: RE SHARD
BROOKE’S DEATH IS RAISING
QUESTIONS ABOUT POLICE
PROTOCOL. HE WAS SHOT
AND KILLED IN ATLANTA WENDY’S
PARKING LOT FRIDAY NIGHT AFTER
A STRUGGLE WITH
2 OFFICERS IN THAT STRUGGLE, HE
TOOK ONE OF THE OFFICERS PACERS
AND RAN AT ONE POINT HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK AFTER HE POINTED THAT TASER AT ONE OF
THE OFFICERS WHILE RUNNING
AWAY.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: NOW PEOPLE
ARE QUESTIONING THE USE OF
DEADLY FORCE NEWS 4 JAX CRIME
AND SAFETY EXPERT KEN JEFFERSON
JOINS US ON THE
MORNING SHOW CAN LOT OF
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS CASE AND
YOU’RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT
THE
BODY CAMERA VIDEO AND ANALYZE
THINGS AS
THEY UNFOLD. SO THIS STARTS OFF
WITH BROOKS APPEARING
GOOD-HUMORED AND LARGELY
COOPERATING AND IT’S NOT UNTIL
AFTER
HE’S HANDCUFFED AND THE ATTEMPT
TO FLEE THE THINGS ESCALATE SO
LET’S START WITH THE OFFICER
APPROACHING THEM AND SO LET’S
ROLL THAT BODY CAMERA VIDEO AND
LISTEN WHAT HAPPENS.
I FEEL LIKE EVERY IN THE HOME, YOUR PARTY, YOUR PERCENT IN THE DRIVE TO ONE
YEAR.
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YEAR. ♪ ♪
SO YOU’RE PART OF THE DRIVE FROM. YOU’RE YOU’RE YOU’RE BLOCKING
TRAFFIC.
THERE’S LIKE THE ONE I WALKED
UP THERE.
SOME AIDES HAVE LONG THERE’S
SOMETHING WAS UP.
YOU CAN USE YOUR WALK AND CONS OF YOUR GOOD YOU DON’T HEAR SEVERAL DO
WITH THEIR TIME.
IMAM ALL
MY CARDS FOR THIS MORNING
TAKING TIME.
>> AND CLOSE THE DOOR HE FALLS ASLEEP THE GRASS YOU CAN PICK IT UP FROM HERE.
THE OFFICERS APPROACHED AFTER
RECEIVING A CALL THAT THERE WAS
A PERSON IN A CAR ASLEEP
BLOCKING THE DRIVE-THRU IN HIS
RESTAURANT OFFICERS APPROACHING
THE ATTEMPT TO WAKE HIM UP.
HE’S PASSED OUT BEHIND THE
WHEEL. AFTER. A COUPLE OF
TIMES OF OF TRYING TO WAKE OF
THE FAMILY WAKES UP AND HE
PULLS INTO A
PARKING SLOT. AND AT THAT POINT
THEY DID DETERMINE BASICALLY
HE HAD BEEN DRINKING THE ASKED
HIM HOW MUCH HE HAD TO DRINK.
I WASN’T SURE IT WAS COMING
THROUGH HERE. THAT’S WHAT HIS
REPLY WAS BUT HE BASICALLY
ADMITTED THAT HE HAD BEEN
DRINKING. SO THEY DECIDED TO A
FIELD
SOBRIETY TEST AND DOING THE
FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS AS WELL AS
A BREATHALYZER THEY DETERMINE
THAT. HE WAS IMPAIRED AND THEY
WERE WE’RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW
HIM TO GET BACK IN THE VEHICLE
IN DRIVE. THEY WERE GOING TO
ARREST HIM. AND CHARGED WITH
MISDEMEANOR DUI FROM FROM THE
LOOKS OF IT. AND AT
THAT POINT WHEN THE ATTEMPT TO
PUT THE. HANDCUFFS
ON HIM. HE STARTS RESISTING HE
STARTS THIS STRUGGLE WITH THEM.
DURING
THE STRUGGLE. HE TAKES AN
OFFICER’S TASER NOW IT’S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW THIS BECAUSE
THE GENERAL PUBLIC JUST DIDN’T
REALLY KNOW THIS. WHEN YOU
TRAIN WITH A TASER.
AS A POLICE OFFICER YOU CAN
CHOOSE TO TAKE
3 TO 5 SECONDS TO KNOW THE
EFFECTS OF THAT TIE-IN KNOW
THAT IT WILL DISABLE YOU’D IT
DISABLES A BODY YOU FREEZE UP.
SO UTAH AND TRAIN
IF SOMEONE DISARMS YOU AND
TAKES
YOUR TASER AND THEY USE THAT
TASER ON YOU THAT’S ALMOST LIKE
A DEATH SENTENCE TO THAT
OFFICER BECAUSE THAT PERSON WHO
IS USING THE TASER AGAINST THE
OFFICER CAN TAKE HIS WEAPON
FROM HIM AND KILL HIM. SO WHEN
YOU HAVE
AN OFFICER IN A IN A STRUGGLE
IN AND HIS TASER AND HE’S IT
HE’S USED HIS ARM HIS TASERS
TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM,
THEN THAT OFFICE IS IN A LIFE
OR DEATH SAYS COULD BE A LIFE
OR DEATH SITUATION. SO LET’S
MOVE FROM FROM THE
STRUGGLE AND THE OFFICERS
TAKING THE TASERS TO THE ACTUAL
CHASE.
>> OKAY, AND CAN’T WE HAVE
THAT VIDEO OF THAT ACTUAL
INTERACTION WHERE YOU SEE THE
OFFICERS AND
THIS MAN STRUGGLING ON THE
GROUND HE’S ABLE TO GRAB
THE TASER AND THEN HE TAKES OFF
RUNNING SO WE GET ROLL THAT
VIDEO TO KIND OF SHOW PEOPLE
THAT PERSPECTIVE THIS IS REALLY
QUICK
CHIMING IN THE SPLIT SECOND
DECISIONS SO THIS IS THE WRECK
ALLIES ARE THIS IS ALL BEFORE
IT HAPPENS. AND CAN IT IN THE
VIDEO YOU SEE HIM RUNNING AWAY
AND THEN YOU SEE HIM TURN BACK
WITH THE TASER YOU’VE GOT TO
WALK THROUGH WHAT THEN IS GOING
THROUGH THIS OFFICERS MINE WHO
HAS A
TASER HIMSELF.
>> AND ALSO HAVE A GUN WHAT
KIND OF THINGS YOU KNOW THE
OFFICER THAT’S CHASING DOWN
THIS OR IS THIS CLOSE AS TRUMP
HAS HAD TO LAST YOU
KNOW CHASE THE OFFICER THAT’S
CLOSEST TO HIM. HE HAS A TASER
IN HIS RIGHT HAND.
AND. DOING THE ACTUAL RUNNING.
WE’RE CHASING. THE
RUSH ART.
AND
POINTS THAT TASER AT THE
OFFICER AND AGAIN LET ME LET ME
STRESS AGAIN IF THAT TASER MAKES CONTACT WITH THAT OFFICER IS GOING TO DISABLE HIM
THE PERSON DEPLOYING THE TASER
HAS
AN OPPORTUNITY WHILE THAT
OFFICE’S DOES ABLE TO DISARM
HIM OF HIS FIREARM AND USE IT
AGAINST HIM OR SOMEONE ELSE
THAT’S THE DANGER. IN THIS
PARTICULAR INCIDENT HAD HE DID
HAD HE NOT HAD A TASER AND HE
WAS JUST RUNNING AWAY FROM THE
OFFICER. I DON’T BELIEVE THAT
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT
SHOT AND KILL I DON’T THINK THE
OTHER FORCE WOULD BE USED, BUT
LET ME LET ME LET ME CLARIFY
THIS POINT
AS WELL, I’VE LOOKED AT THIS
VIDEO NUMEROUS TIMES LAST NIGHT
AND EVEN UP TO THIS MORNING.
I’VE TAKEN A COUPLE OF HOURS
EXAMINE IT. EXAMINED HIS VIDEO
AND AND I’M MAKING ASSESSMENTS
ON RIGHT NOW
THAT OFFICER HAS SECONDS TO
DECIDE WHAT HE WANTED TO DO
WHAT HE NEEDED TO DO BECAUSE
YOU RECOGNIZE. HE WAS JASON HE
WAS CHASING THE HE WAS MISTER
BROOKS AND WHEN WHEN
MISTER BROOKS TURNED ON HIM AND
POINTED THAT TASER
TOWARDS HIM. IT BECOMES A DAILY
SITUATION EITHER FOR THE
OFFICER OR 4. MISTER
BROOKS AND AND UNFORTUNATELY.
THAT ALSO WANT NOT UNFORTUNATE
THAT YOU WANT TO GO HOME, BUT
FORTUNATELY MISTER BROOKS GOT
THE BRUNT
OF THAT ALL RIGHT BUT KYLE DO
ME A FAVOR GO TO SEE 15 WHICH
IS THE VIDEO WITH
THE SOUND.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: WE CAN
ACTUALLY HEAR SOME OF THAT
STRUGGLE UNFOLDING, LET’S
LISTEN FOR SECOND BEST.
>> LET ME LET ME TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WERE SAID ATLANTA’S MAYOR SAID IT WAS
NOT. CONFRONTATIONAL.
THE FULTON COUNTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS SAID THERE
IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT
YOU CAN DO. AND WHAT YOU
SHOULD DO. NOW
YOUR PERSPECTIVE. AS OUR NEWS 4
JAX CRIME AND SAFETY EXPERT AND
IS A FORMER POLICE OFFICER IS
THAT THIS POLICE OFFICER
CLEARLY FELT AS IF HIS LIFE WAS
THREATENED.
HE OBVIOUSLY FELT THAT IT
WAS THREATENED.
>> WHEN THE WE WERE SHARP TURN
AND POINTED TO TAKE THE TASER
TOURS OF TRYING TO SEND THOSE
PROBES.
ADAM AND AGAIN HAD THOSE PROBES
MADE HAD HE HAD THE SHOT BEEN
CLEAR AND IT HIT THE OFFICER.
IT WOULD DISABLE HIM FOR
5 SECONDS WHEN YOU WHEN YOU
TASER WITH WHEN A TASER IS
DEPLOYED IN YOUR BODY. THOSE
PROBES GO THROUGH
YOUR SKIN. YOU ARE FROZEN FOR 5
SECONDS YOU CAN MOVE ON THING
YOU CAN DO IS GREEN BECAUSE OF
THE PAIN THAT YOU FEEL DOING
THAT PARTICULAR TIME I WOULD
HAVE TO DISAGREE
MAYOR BOTTOMS. IF SHE SAID THAT
THIS WAS NOT CONFRONTATIONAL
BECAUSE WE SEE THE
CONFRONTATION RIGHT THERE WHEN
WE ALSO DECIDES THAT HE WANTS
TO ARREST HIM.
HE BEGINS
TO RESIST AND THEN THEY’RE
STRUGGLING TO JUST BASICALLY
TUSSLING THEN HE ALSO THROWS
AND PUMPS ARE A BROOKS THROW
SOME PUNCHES AT THE OFFICE IS
MAKING CONTACT WITH THE 90’S.
HE’S CHARGED WITH THE FELONIES
STARTED WITH THE MISDEMEANOR
DUI AND IT ESCALATED BECAUSE
MISTER BROOKS DO NOT WANT TO BE
ARRESTED HE BEGIN TO STRUGGLE
AND A FIGHT WITH THE OFFICERS.
THEN HE RUNS AWAY AND THEN AS
YOU CAN SEE IN THE VIDEO THAT
HE TURN BURNS AND HE FIRES
THAT TASER AT THE OFFICER.
>>LAUREN VERNO: LET ME JUST ASK YOU A QUICK QUESTION WE ARE GOING TO BREAK AND THEN
CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION BUT
WHEN A TASER
IS DEPLOYED. ARE YOU ABLE TO
DEPLOY AGAIN DOES IT TAKE SOME
MINUTES TO RECYCLE TO BE USED
AGAIN OR IS IT A ONE-TIME USE.
>> THERE ARE SOME CASES THAT
CAN. REPEAT. THE PROBES
GOING OUT.
THE THE TYPE OF TASER THAT I
CARED WHEN I WAS AN OFFICER.
YOU HAD TO CHANGE THE CONTRACT
OUT
WANTS YOU DEPLOYED AT ONE TIME
SO MY TASER YOU YOU SHOT
IT WANTS. IF YOU MISS YOUR
TARGET YOU’VE GOT TO TAKE THAT
CAR SHUT OFF AND PUT ANOTHER
ONE ON BUT THERE ARE SOME TO
SOME TASERS. SOME UPGRADED TASE
IS THAT ALLOW YOU TO FIRE MORE
THAN ONCE WITHOUT CHANGING THE
CARTRIDGE ALL RIGHT SO WE KNOW
THAT THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS,
WE KNOW THAT THE ATLANTA POLICE